People keep asking me
if I still want you back.
And I never know
what to say.
Because the truth is complicated.
I don't want the version of you
who left me.
I don't want the silence,
the confusion,
the feeling of begging
for love that should have stayed.
But I do miss
the version of you
who held my heart carefully.
The version of you
who made me feel chosen.
So no…
I don't want you back.
I just want
the love I thought we had.