loudest disrespect
The loudest disrespect
is realizing they were never gonna tell you.
Not because they forgot—
but because silence was easier
than your truth.
If you hadn’t found out,
you’d still be in the dark,
calling shadows “love,”
calling confusion “patience,”
calling betrayal “misunderstanding.”
They let you smile
with a lie sitting beside you.
Let you trust
with a broken floor beneath your feet.
That wasn’t mercy.
That was choice.
Because honesty didn’t scare them—
losing control did.