From Stranger to Stranger We may have shared a moment once, but your absence weighs more than your presence ever did. You’re still on my list of priorities, though I was never on yours, not even once. I glimpsed a future, you lived only in passing seconds. They say what belongs to you will stay, but what never did simply leaves, as if it knew all along. Love belongs to no one, it drifts from hand to hand, capricious and sly, playing tricks we never see coming. Our paths won’t cross again, not in this chapter, not in any. Some things were never ours, and never will be. Some departures feel heavy, yet somehow, the weight lifts once the goodbye is real. Some things are made to work better alone.