If You Believe

Title: “If You Believe”

You say I pushed you away

Like I didn’t feel the weight

Of every word you swallowed back

Every silence I couldn’t translate

I wasn’t trying to disappear

I was learning how to stay

When loving you felt like standing

In the middle of a breaking wave

You call it weakness when I bend

But you never saw me break

I was holding us together

While you were already walking away

You ask me questions like you know the truth

Like strength is something I owed to you

Do I believe in life after love?

I’m still breathing, so I guess I must

But don’t confuse my shaking hands

For giving up

You say I’m not strong enough to stand

But strength ain’t always letting go fast

If love was real to you

Why did you leave without looking back?

So tell me now—

Do you believe in love when it hurts this much?

You say you need time to move on

Like I didn’t need it too

Like I didn’t spend my nights

Learning how to live without you

You say you’re too good for me

Like love’s a game you won

But walking away first doesn’t mean

You were the stronger one

I stayed when it was heavy

I stayed when it was hard

You call that waiting

I call it having a heart

You found your power in goodbye

I found mine in asking why

Do I believe in life after love?

Some days yes, some nights I’m stuck

But healing doesn’t make a sound

It’s quiet, slow, and rough

You say I’m not strong enough to rise

But strength don’t always look like pride

If I still believe in us

Does that really mean I’ve lost the fight?

So answer me—

Do you believe in love once it’s bruised and cut?

You say you don’t need me anymore

I never asked you to

I just needed you to stay long enough

To see this through

Maybe strength is walking away

Maybe it’s staying soft

But don’t rewrite our history

Like I didn’t give you all I’ve got

I do believe in life after love

Even if it took me longer than us

I’ll rebuild slow, I’ll feel it all

I won’t pretend I’m bulletproof or tough

You said I wasn’t strong enough

But love isn’t a race you run

So here’s my question, honest and true—

If love was never weak…

Why did it scare you too?

(After love… after love…)

I’m still here

Still believing

Just not the way you do.