For you

On my hard days, I miss you.

On my good days, I still think about you.

Some days, you were my strength.

Other days, you were my hope.

And in moments I didn’t even realise I was breaking,

you were my comfort.

You never promised to stay,

but you stayed in ways that mattered.

In the pauses between my thoughts,

in the calm after the tears,

in the courage I didn’t know I had.

Even now, when life moves forward,

a part of me carries what you gave

not as pain,

but as something softer,

something that taught me how to keep going.

And maybe that’s how you remain

not beside me,

but within me.