Once Open, Now Forever Closed; Their Loss, Not Yours

uh so that's how it is that's what they did to you took you in squeezed every last drop of you then tossed you away like a bad joke once open now forever closed and guess what that's not your loss that's theirs but you you're still stuck aren't you still waiting for a reason still trying to figure out why they left why they betrayed you why they chose someone else something else anything else over you still hoping deep down that maybe just maybe they'll come back you poor poor fool you still don't get it do you

people don't change they just find better ways to hide who they really are let me explain something to you the world is not built for the kindhearted you see people they love the idea of you not the reality they love what you can do for them not who you are and the moment the second you stop serving a purpose in their little circus they'll turn on you faster than you can blink oh but they'll make sure to leave a mark before they go they'll carve their absence into your chest like it was some kind of

art because that's what they do isn't it they build you up make you feel needed wanted Irreplaceable and then snap they disappear leaving nothing but Echoes and here's the real punchline you let them you let them in you trusted you gave you made excuses for their cruelty covered up their selfishness played blind to their lies and now now you sit here drowning in their absence clinging to ghosts that wouldn't even recognize your face if they saw you again but let me tell you a secret you don't need them no you never did they were just

a distraction a side side character in a story that was never meant to be about them in the first place you are the main event you always were they were just too small-minded to see it you think you lost something no they did they lost someone loyal someone real someone who would have bled for them and you well you just lost someone who was willing to throw you away that's not a loss that's a cleaning let me tell you a little story you ever seen a snake shed its skin it looks painful doesn't it like

it's tearing itself apart layer by layer but the thing is that old skin it was never meant to last it gets tight it gets suffocating and if the snake doesn't shed it it dies that's you right now you're still wearing dead skin still holding on to Old weight still carrying people who were never meant to stay you see the biggest mistake you made was thinking that just because you were good to people they'd be good to you that's not how it works this world is full of users takers and leeches they'll drain you dry and

walk away like you never existed and if you let them back in they'll do it again and again and again until there's nothing left of you so what do you do you close the door you lock it you burn the key you let them starve in the absence of your presence and when they come knocking when they crawl back pretending they never left pretending they suddenly care you smile you watch and you let them rot outside because you you don't need them anymore you know people like to talk about Revenge they think it's about getting

even about making them feel what you felt no revenge is silence revenge is moving on Revenge is becoming so untouchable that their absence means nothing you don't waste your energy proving a point to people who never deserved you in the first place you don't spend your life chasing closure from people who never even gave you respect you walk away and you never look back because the truth is they expect you to break they expect you to sit there shattered waiting for them to return they expect you to beg to need them but you you do

the unexpected you rise you re build and one day when they finally turn around searching for the version of you they once knew they'll realize you don't exist anymore once open now forever closed they're loss not yours you see most people they parasites and disguise they come wrapped in pretty words in Smiles that don't quite reach their eyes eyes in promises that sound too good to be true because they are and oh how they love to pretend they pretend they care pretend they'll stay pretend you mean something more than just another name on their list

of conquests but the truth the truth is ugly and it doesn't change no matter how much you want it to well they were never real they were just Echoes of what you wished they were and that's the hardest pill to swallow isn't it that you weren't betrayed by them you were betrayed by your own expectations that's the real tragedy that's what keeps you awake at night not that they left but that you let yourself believe they wouldn't that you trusted that you saw something in them that never really existed and now now you're sitting in

the wreckage trying to figure out how to put yourself back together trying to find the part of you that disappeared when they walked away but let me tell you something there's nothing to find that version of you the one that loved blindly the one that forgave too easily the one that made excuses for people who never deserved a second chance that version of you is dead and good riddance because the only way to survive in this world is to understand one thing you owe no one your softness you owe owe no one your loyalty your

love your patience your kindness you gave and they wasted it you built and they burned it you sacrificed and they walked away without looking back so tell me why in the hell would you ever give them another chance why would you wait another breath another tear another ounce of your soul on people who wouldn't lift a damn finger for you they always come back you know that's the funny part when they think you've healed when they think enough time has passed when they convince themselves that maybe just maybe you've forgotten the way they destroyed you

they come crawling they test the waters send a message act like nothing happened because to them nothing did they never felt the pain you did they never sat in the darkness piecing together what was left of themselves no they moved on without a second thought without a sliver of regret and now that they need something now that they feel empty now that their new toys didn't quite fill the void they come back looking for the version of you that still cared but here's the kicker that version of you is gone and all that's left is

someone they can never manipulate again do you get it now do you see what I'm trying to tell you they never deserved you they never earned your kindness your patience your loyalty and the fact that they left the fact that they broke you that's not a reflection of you it's a reflection of them you don't need to question your worth because of their actions you don't need their apology to move on you don't need their closure their explanations their weak little justifications the only closure you need is realizing they were never meant to stay so

you do what they never expected you rise you build yourself back up stronger colder untouchable you learn to walk alone not because you have to but because you choose to because you know now you know what people are capable of you know what it means to be used discarded abandoned and you refuse to let it happen again and the next time someone tries to take a seat at your table the next time someone Whispers pretty lies in your ear tries to make you believe in something that doesn't exist you remember you remember what it felt

like to be torn apart you remember the sleepless nights The Emptiness the anger the regret you remember the scars they left and you remind yourself never again you see pain pain is a lesson it's the sharpest teacher the cruelest mentor and if you're smart you learn you let it mold you shape you turn you into something unbreakable you don't let it make you bitter no that's too easy you let it make you better wiser more selective because from now on you don't give away pieces of yourself to people who haven't earned them from now on

you don't open doors that were meant to stay closed and when they come knocking when they realize what they lost when they beg when they plead when they pretend they've changed you let them knock you let them scream you let them feel what you felt and then you walk away way without a word without a glance without a second thought because the biggest revenge is knowing that they will never ever have access to you again you want to know what real power is it's not anger it's not Revenge it's not making them feel what you

felt no that's small that's weak that's what they expect from you real power is silence real power is indifference real power is walking away from them like they were never there in the first place you see they expect you to cry to scream to beg to fall apart at the seams they expect you to make a show of your pain because that's what feeds them your suffering is their proof that they mattered that's the only thing people like them crave to be important enough to ruin you so what do you do you do the one

thing that destroys them more than anything else you make them irrel you erase them not from your mind no no no that's impossible you'll remember you'll always remember but you remember with indifference like an old scar that no longer hurts when you touch it you stop giving them space in your mind stop letting their name carry weight stop letting their memory take up real estate in your heart heart you delete them from your life from your story from every corner of your world where they once had a seat and when they come looking for their

old place when they knock on the door they once walked through so easily they find nothing but a wall because that that's the thing about doors once closed they stay closed there is no reopening there is no going back there is no second round people like to talk about forgiveness like it's some kind of virtue like it's proof of strength but let me tell you the truth forgiveness is a privilege and not everyone deserves it you see when they left when they betrayed you when they turned their back on you without hesitation they made a

choice a conscious deliberate choice and choices they come with consequences they chose to break you and you choose to never let them have the chance again that's not hate that's not bitterness that's Justice you see life is a game a brutal bloody game and in this game there are two types of people players and pawns the players they make moves they calculate they strategize they decide who stays and who goes but the pawns oh the pawns they wait they sit on the board waiting for someone to choose them waiting to be used waiting for a

purpose for direction for someone else to decide their fate but you you are not a pawn you never were you just forgot for a while let them move you around like a piece in their little game but now now you take the board you break it in half you burn the pieces and you play by your own damn rules because the moment you stop waiting the moment you stop hoping the moment you stop needing anything from anyone that's the moment you become Untouchable you see people can only hurt you when you give them power they

can only betray you if you trust them they can only abandon you if you let them in so what do you do you close the gates you raise the walls you let no one through unless they've earned it and I know what you're thinking but what if I end up alone now you're asking the right questions what if you do what if you walk away from all the fake friendships all the shallow relationships all the people who only stick around when it benefits them what if you cut them off what if you stop playing their

game stop pretending stop settling for crumbs when you were meant for so much more then what then you learn the greatest lesson of all you don't need them you never did you just thought you did because the world trained you to believe that loneliness is some kind of disease but it's not it's a weapon it's a shield it's a thing that will keep you safe When The World Turns its back on you again and it will because that's what people do they leave they take they betray but Solitude Solitude is loyal it never lies to

you never uses you never disappears when things get tough it stays and once you learn to embrace it once you learn to make peace with it once you learn to walk alone without fear that's when you become truly dangerous because that's when they lose all control over you that's when they realize they can't hurt you anymore that's when they look at you and see something they never expected a person who doesn't need anyone a person who cannot be manipulated a person who is stronger alone than they ever were with anyone else and that that terrifies

them because the world feeds on attachment it thrives on dependency it wants you to need need approval need validation need people need love need something anything outside of yourself but the moment you stop needing the moment you become whole on your own you become Untouchable and Untouchable people they're Unstoppable so you close the doors you let them knock let them beg let them scream into the void they created with their own hands but you you don't answer you don't look back you don't break because you understand now some doors once shut should never be opened

again and them they will spend the rest of their lives realizing that they lost something they will never ever get back you know what the funniest part is they never thought you'd actually walk away that's the real joke they were so sure of their grip on you so confident in your attachment so damn arrogant that they believed you'd always be there waiting like some loyal little pet ready to forgive ready to take them back ready to act like nothing ever happened that's what they counted on because that's how the game works doesn't it they break

you they betray you they leave you in pieces and then they go live their life like you never existed but you oh you're supposed to just sit there Frozen in time waiting for their grand return waiting for them to decide that you're worth their attention again and the second they do the second they so much as snap their fingers they expect you to come running but not this time not anymore because the moment you walked away the moment you slammed the door shut and locked it forever you flipped the script you destroyed their illusion of

control and now now they don't know what to do do because people like them they don't handle consequences well they don't know how to deal with the Silence with the indifference with the realization that they aren't as important as they thought they were and that that eats them alive see the thing about people who betray others is that they never think they'll have to face the cost of their actions they assume the world will just move on that their mistakes will be forgotten that the people they hurt will always be there ready to welcome them

back like nothing ever happened but the moment you show them otherwise the moment you refuse to play their game their whole little world comes crashing down because now they have to live with the reality that they lost something Irreplaceable and trust me they will feel it not immediately no at first they'll pretend they don't care they'll act like you never mattered like they never needed you like they're perfectly fine without you but give it time give it a few months a year maybe even longer and one day out of nowhere it'll hit them like a

train with no breaks they'll wake up one morning and realize that no one else gives them what you did no one else listens the way you did no one else fights for them supports them understands them loves them the way you did and in that moment in that Split Second where they finally grasp what they threw away they'll feel something they never expected regret oh but regret is useless isn't it because the door is closed now the bridge is burned the path back to you it doesn't exist anymore and that that's the real punishment not

screaming not fighting not giving them a chance to explain just absence just silence just the undeniable inescapable truth that they can never have access to you again you see most people think revenge is about destruction about getting even about making them pay but that's not true real revenge is growth it's success it's proving without a single word that their absence did didn't break you it made you it forged you into something they can never touch again and the moment they realize that the moment they understand that you're no longer within their reach that's when they

truly lose because what they did to you what they put you through that was supposed to ruin you that was supposed to leave you shattered crawling desperate for any scrap of validation they'd be willing to throw your way but instead instead you turned it into fuel instead you took that pain and built something out of it built yourself out of it and now when they look for the person they Left Behind when they search for the weak broken version of you they once knew all they find is someone stronger than they ever imagined someone who

doesn't need them doesn't miss them doesn't even think about them anymore and that that's the part that kills them because people like them they thrive on being needed they feed on attention on the idea that they hold some kind of power over you and when they realize they don't when they see that you moved on that you're thriving that you never even glanced in their direction again that's when the weight of their choices crushes them that's when they finally understand what they lost but by then it's too late because you're not there anymore you're not

waiting you're not listening you're gone and that that is the greatest punishment of all you ever notice how people only value something once it's gone oh it's arious they'll spend years taking you for granted treating you like an option walking in and out of your life like it's a revolving door they'll use you drain you enjoy the warmth of your loyalty without a second thought and then one day you're just gone no warnings no goodbyes no explanations just silence and suddenly suddenly they care suddenly they remember all the little things you did for them all

the ways you stood by them all the times you held them together when the rest of the world had already given up Suddenly they're haunted by what they lost but that's the thing isn't it they don't miss you they they miss the version of you they could take advantage of they miss the convenience of your presence the comfort of knowing you'd always be there the security of having someone who actually gave a damn about them but you you're not that person anymore you're not the safety net the backup plan the shoulder to cry on on

when their new distractions don't work out no that version of you is dead and that's what they can't stand that's what keeps them up at night the realization that they don't get a second chance that they can't undo what they did that the damage they caused wasn't just a bad moment wasn't just a mistake it was a permanent shift they expect things to go back to the way they were expect you to be the same person who would have welcomed them back with open arms but instead they find a locked door an empty space a

version of you that doesn't even acknowledge their existence anymore because that's what real loss is not anger not arguments not some dramatic goodbye where they get to plead their case no no no real loss is walking away without looking back it's refusing to engage refusing to explain refusing to give them even a sliver of your attention it's letting them sit in the silence they created letting them drown in the emptiness of a life without you in it and trust me they will feel it not right away no at first they'll pretend it doesn't matter they'll

act like it was their choice like they're better off like they never needed you in the first place but time time time has a way of exposing the truth because one day the noise Fades the distractions lose their appeal the people they replaced you with they don't measure up and that's when it happens that's when they wake up in the middle of the night staring at the ceiling realizing they destroyed the one person who actually cared but by then it's too late because you're not there anymore you've outgrown them outlived them moved Beyond them and

they're stuck Frozen in a past were they still mattered but the world has moved on you have moved on and that that is the greatest punishment of all because people like them they don't fear losing you they fear losing access to you they fear becoming irrelevant becoming just another name in your past just another mistake you learned from and when that fear becomes reality when they realize there's no way back in it destroys them because now they have to live with the knowledge that they had something rare something real something Priceless and they threw it

away but here's where it gets interesting you see they'll never admit it oh no they'll never let you know how much it eats at them they'll put on a show act like they don't care pretend their life is so much better without you in it but beneath it all beneath the forced smiles and fake confidence they're Hollow they're haunted because they know deep down in the part of themselves they refuse to acknowledge they made the wrong choice and you you don't have to do a damn thing no messages no Revenge no dramatic confrontations just silence

just absence just the undeniable truth that they will never have access to you again and that that is the one thing they can't handle because now they have to live with the consequences of their own actions with the weight of their own choices and you you walk away untouched you see there's a certain kind of power in being the one who left in being the one who walked away in being the one who refused to be anyone's second choice because most people they never do most people hold on hoping for change waiting for apologies clinging

to the idea that maybe just maybe the person who hurt them will wake up one day and finally understand what they lost but that's not real is it because if they truly valued you they never would have put you in a position to leave in the first place so you stop waiting you stop hoping you close the door you lock it you burn the damn key and when they come knocking when they finally realize what they lost you let them knock you let them scream you let them feel the emptiness they once forced you to

sit in because the most power ful thing you can ever do is never let them have the chance to hurt you again you see people don't expect consequences they live their lives stepping on others taking what they need walking away when it's convenient always assuming they can come back when they feel like it they treat loyalty like an unlimited resource assuming if it'll always be there waiting for them to claim whenever they feel lonely enough but they never stop to ask themselves what happens when it's gone what happens when the person they abandoned is no

longer waiting what happens when the door they left open is suddenly locked bolted sealed forever oh they don't think about that do they not until it's too late because that's the thing about life you don't get a second chance at people who were real with you the first time you don't get to use someone discard them and then Walt back in like nothing ever happened that's not how this works you you either cherish what you have or you watch it disappear and once it's gone once the damage is done there is no fixing it the

apology will never be enough the regret will never undo the Betrayal and the excuses will never erase the fact that when they had the chance to do right by you they didn't and that that's what will haunt them not the fights not the harsh words not the final goodbye but the realization that they were the ones who ended it that their actions their choices their selfishness was what sealed their fate and no matter how much time passes no matter how many nights they spent replaying the past trying to convince themselves that they made the right

decision deep down they will always know they didn't they lost something rare something real something they will never find again but you you don't mourn them you don't waste another s second of your life wondering what could have been what should have been what might have happened if they had just chosen differently because that's not your burden to carry it never was you gave them a chance you gave them time you gave them everything they needed to prove they deserved you and they failed that's on them not you you move forward you walk away head

high heart intact Soul Untouchable you leave them in the past where they belong trapped in their own regrets drowning in the weight of their own mistakes because you you are not a second option you are not a backup plan you are not a revolving door that people can walk through whenever it suits them you are the one who decides who gets access to you and once that door closes once the final chapter is written once the story is done it stays done and them they will live with the reality that they had something they will

never ever get back [Music]