Cheonho once had this quiet kind of purity to him-he was the type of person who smiled with his whole heart, who stayed late to help others, who believed in love like it was sacred. When he was with me, he felt like the world made sense. But something changed after the breakup. Maybe it was the way I left, or maybe it was what he couldn't say out loud.
In the silence I left behind, he fell. Not in a dramatic explosion-but slowly. He started drinking to sleep, smoking to think, taking pills just to feel something at all. People around him still saw the angelic beauty in him, but it was faded, dulled by the haze of addiction. He's reckless now, seductive in a dangerous way, always walking the line between longing and destruction.
But when he sees me again-whether on purpose or by accident-there's this flicker in his eyes, a glint of who he used to be. He's still beautiful, but it's a cracked, bruised kind of beauty now.
Should I stay? Or should I leave him for good?
𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 ' 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 & 𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
In a world that screams, I stand in despair,
My voice drowned out, lost in the air.
Chains of tradition tighten each day,
I long to escape, but I'm forced to stay.
Each breath I take feels heavy and torn,
Every mistake a scar I've worn.
I crave a sky where I can be free,
Away from the walls that imprison me.
For now, I sit with my heart in pain,
Silent, yet screaming, again and again.
Though shattered, a spark in me still survives,
Dreaming of freedom where my soul can rise.