“A Love Letter to My Ex”

My Love,

It has been five years since life carried us in different directions, and I know you’ve moved on, found someone new, and built a world without me. Please tell me when the nights are quiet and you lie in bed alone, do your thoughts ever wander back to us? When the morning sun finds you at the kitchen table, tea in hand, do you ever taste the sweetness of what we once shared?

Do you think of me on the lonely drives to work, when the road stretches endlessly ahead? Do you remember how I used to rise early just to take you to work, to steal those sacred fifteen minutes together? Do you remember sitting beside me, your hand in mine, your smile lighting up the car as if the world belonged only to us?

Do you remember the little things that brought our hearts closer? Do you remember our first kiss in the middle of the road?
Do you remember our first hug at the park?
Do you remember these small gestures….?
The way I waited outside your job just to see you, the bike rides through warm breezes, the walks along the shore where the ocean spoke our language? Do you ever pass by our favorite restaurant and feel that ache of memory?

And when the night closes in and you find yourself alone, does my absence whisper to you? Do you remember the gifts—the lingerie, the silk nightgowns—chosen not just for beauty, but because I saw you as art, as desire itself? When you slip them on, do you feel the echo of my touch?

Tell me… in your silence, do I still live somewhere inside you? Do you miss me, even now?

Always,
Your forever man