[Verse 1] I didn’t want to fight you. I wanted to stay. But the choice you gave me was one I couldn’t make. It was never mine to choose between truth and love. I tried to carry both— but they broke me in half. [Pre-Chorus] I gave you everything except my soul. And that’s the one thing you still tried to hold. [Chorus] This isn’t regret. This is holy grief. The kind that carves but doesn’t leave. If I left you, it was to stay with myself. I never stopped loving— but I did stop falling. [Verse 2] You called it betrayal. I called it a vow. To the child in me that kept kneeling down. I stood up shaking, but I stood all the same. And whispered— “This isn’t shame.” [Bridge] I did not choose to close the door. I chose not to die inside it. [Final Chorus] This isn't goodbye. It's a sacred wound. A soft, sharp flame I walk with now. It doesn’t burn like it used to— But it still glows.
