The Unseen Breakup: When Love Dies Without a Goodbye

Today’s post is a little different.

I’m sharing a poem I wrote 11 years ago, originally in French.

Before the poem, here are three scriptures that reflect its themes of love, loss, and the passage of time:

📖 Revelation 2:4 (NIV)

“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.”

📖 Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 (NIV)

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…

A time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away.”

📖 Psalm 34:18 (NIV)

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Extinguished Love

I know that hollow stare,

the emptiness that lingers,

even with you beside me.

Familiar gestures, now lifeless,

routines that suffocate,

a coldness too heavy to ignore.

How did we end up here?

Like strangers in the dark,

we reach, but never touch.

The silence, sharp as a knife.

The distance, endless, unbridgeable.

The spark, long dead,

a flame we no longer try to revive.

I know the end is coming—

slow, merciless, inevitable.

And yet, we just sit here,

watching love decay into nothing.

Reflection

This poem portrays a couple who has been married for many years, yet over time, their love has begun to unravel—perhaps due to a lack of communication, emotional neglect, or simply taking each other for granted.

Love doesn’t vanish overnight; it fades in the quiet moments where connection is lost. What was once passionate and full of warmth slowly turns ice-cold. The most heartbreaking part isn’t fights or betrayal, but indifference—when two people who once shared everything become strangers, not because they stopped loving each other, but because they stopped trying.

A marriage isn’t sustained by memories of what once was; it thrives when both partners actively nurture the fire. Without effort, love withers. Without intentional care, even the strongest bond can grow distant. If neither person works to keep the spark alive, love doesn’t just fade—it freezes into silence.

So the question remains:

💭 How do we keep love from fading? What can we do today to keep the fire alive?

Soul Path Insights