When people you love leaves you, traces of them remains all around and it makes things difficult.

Painful as it is, sometimes separation is inevitable

Come she said
Stay she said
Smile she said
Die she said

I came
I stayed
I smiled
I died

- Vera

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

abyss, n.

There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.