How can you walk down the aisle—
when we just shared our soul?
All these pearls,
like we never had a thread at all
you still walked back to your lovely home.

I was here
to fill the space,
thinking I was earning my place beside you.
Each time I held your gaze,
I never knew someone else held it better.

Your beautiful smiles—
they felt carved just for me.
If only you'd told me
they belonged to somebody.

I'm such a fool
Not for falling—
but for burying my what ifs
every time I heard your voice.
That you could still smile
like I was your whole world,
while handing it to someone else.

That you could still look at me
like I was the only soul you knew,
while hiding someone behind your door.
That you could still hold me,
make me feel like home,
while someone else was keeping you warm.

Was I carried away?
Or was it just your smile that felt too real?
It aches—
in places I never knew could hurt.

How can you sit by their side
and pretend I we've never met?
I believed we would hold this together
until the very end.

But did I really end up here?
I couldn’t grasp this truth, but…
it felt real to me.
You just felt real to me.