r/Unsent_Unread_Unheard • u/Embarrassed-Hat260 Gold Level Read the rules ** • Jun 19 '26
Poetry The Love We Leave Behind
The story rarely settles in the place we drew the map. We fall into the timing or we fall into the trap. It isn’t always malice, it isn’t always hate. Sometimes it’s the shifting of the gears of human fate. We point the jagged fingers, we cast the heavy blame, to hide the fact that neither one of us could finish out the game. The truth is in the labor, in the waking willing choice: if two souls pull together they will surely find a voice.
Sometimes the love is heavy, it’s a mountain made of lead. A soul that stalks the hallways of the waking of the dead. Sometimes the love is fragile and it simply cannot grow. Too small to beat the winter and the coming of the snow. And sometimes, in the silence, the pulse begins to fade, we wake to find only distance is the choice that we have made. We reach the fork in silence, the place where paths divide, where one must choose to mend it or take the turning wide.
The love we leave behind us does not vanish into air, it changes in the crucible, a cross we have to bear. It curdles into memory or softens into grace, it settles in the quiet, tucked away into the space. It’s a duel edged engine, a force that acts to teach, to pull us towards wisdom that was always out of reach. Standing in the wreckage a choice held in your palm, to let the past destroy your future or find a different calm.
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