@xiex16: I still wait for you, not because I believe you’ll return, but because longing has not yet learned how to leave. Some people go away, yet their traces remain in the heart, as if time moves on for everyone except that memory. I still wait for you, because sometimes the heart holds tighter to what it has lost than to what it has. And somewhere between hope and surrender is a step I still cannot take. I am not waiting for your return; I am waiting for the end of this waiting.