I Don’t Break the Way I Used To”

There was a time when heartbreak felt like the end of me.

When a single silence, a single distance, a single shift in someone’s tone

could send me spiraling back into every wound I never learned how to close.

But I’m not her anymore.

I don’t shatter at the first sign of tension.

I don’t crumble when someone pulls away.

I don’t fold myself small just to fit inside somebody’s comfort zone.

Now?

I bend.

I breathe.

I pause.

I choose myself.

Healing didn’t make me harder—

it made me steadier.

I still feel deeply.

I still love intensely.

I still crave connection in ways that only the dark can explain.

But I don’t break the way I used to.