What We Were Poem by Biyaya YOHANNA

Friendship was all we had.

A quiet truth I tried not to name.
I dressed my hopes in borrowed dreams,
while your heart stayed where it always was.

I searched your smile for hidden meanings,
counted silences like promises, and mistook kindness
for the beginning of forever.

Then the truth arrived gently, without anger or applause.
Friendship was all we had.

And it sank in.

Not like a storm, but like rain that slowly reaches the roots.
It hurt, yes!
yet it also set me free.

Some people are meant to walk beside us, not into our forever.
And sometimes,
acceptance is the bravest form of love.