6/3/25 - Untitled Poem by Katherine Lyczek Yang

Untitled -
He left because she stuttered in confusion when he said he loved her. He saw the way her eyes flicked with unhinged confusion when he told her she was beautiful. He felt his words of affirmation slide off her small, beautiful body until they pooled in a pathetic puddle around her frail feet. He watched his words strike her like a blow, then slide off her as she listened to the little voice inside her head that told her she wasn't good enough. He turned around everytime diminishing so fragmentedly that by the time he said goodbye, he didn't know who he was anymore. That was his reason. Her doubt had changed him, and he realized he couldn't love her anymore.
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