There is nothing worse than hope. It’s the quietest form of torture: gentle, persistent, and almost kind.
When every message feels like a sign, a fragile proof that you still matter in the world of the one you love. When faith has already grown weak, hope stays stubborn, trembling, alive.
You keep the conversation going, finding reasons to write, threads to hold onto, tiny fragments of “maybe.” Because once, things came back. Once, the circle always closed.
Hope whispers that you still matter, that you are still needed, that somewhere deep inside, they miss you too. So even their silence, their coldness, their sharp words you turn into signs of hidden love.
But the truth is simpler, quieter, crueller.
They have already moved on. And yet, hope refuses to believe it.
You keep thinking this can’t be real… It just can’t end like this. They can’t really be so cold, so distant, so merciless in their words, in their silence. They can’t just ignore you like you were nothing.
You tell yourself:
“Give it time. They’ll come back and say:
‘Hey, you fool, I was just testing you. Of course I love you.’”
But nothing happens.
And still…
hope flickers on.
When does hope finally die? When does it let go of love and stop asking for what cannot return?
Faith is barely breathing now, but hope.. hope still lingers, holding love by the hand, keeping it alive just enough to make it ache.
From the very beginning, and through every step until now, there were countless signs: small, quiet truths that I refused to see.
Moments that whispered: you are no longer part of their world. Their life kept moving forward, and I was no longer in their rhythm.
And yet, I kept believing. I built stories out of silence, turning absence into meaning, convincing myself that love was just waiting for the right moment to return. I thought that patience would prove my worth, that faith could somehow reshape reality.
But now…
The truth stands before me: calm, unshakable, and cold. Faith has grown thin, like a dying flame in the wind. I see what was always there: they moved on, and I stayed behind, holding on to something that existed only in memory.
Still, hope refuses to die. It clings to the impossible, whispering that maybe this is not the end, that maybe one day they will remember, that maybe love never truly leaves, it just hides.
And even though reason knows better, my heart still trembles at the thought that all of this could still somehow turn out differently.
Because if hope dies…
what will be left of me?