Quiet Goodbyes

I found your name on paper in a notebook from before.

The letters looked like they were tired, like they couldn't shine no more.

I didn't cry. I didn't fall. My heart just made a sigh. Sometimes love just

gets real quiet and nobody knows why. This is the goodbye I didn't

say. The one that walked itself away. No shouting loud, no broken parts.

Just a sleepy little heart. This is the goodbye soft and small.

The kind that doesn't hurt at all. We didn't lose. We just outgrew.

But I remember you. There used to be your picture hanging up above