This feels close
In a way I don’t trust

We learned each other’s habits too well
So now the gaps don’t raise alarms
I can read your mood by the way you move
Like distance grew into its own routine
We don’t explain what’s understood
We don’t reach for what we should
Familiar doesn’t mean it’s safe
It just means I know the shape

It’s a familiar distance
Close enough not to break
Far enough not to feel it
That’s the line we stay
It’s a familiar distance
I don’t ask, you don’t say
We don’t leave
We don’t change

We share space like it’s neutral ground
No tension loud enough to sound
Like trouble, like the end of us
Just quiet built on quiet trust
I don’t miss you when you’re here
I don’t miss myself when you’re gone
Everything’s measured, nothing spills
That’s how we learned to carry on

It’s a familiar distance
Close enough not to break
Far enough not to feel it
That’s the line we stay
It’s a familiar distance
I don’t ask, you don’t say
We don’t leave
We don’t change

I tell myself this is peace
But peace shouldn’t feel this empty

It’s a familiar distance
And I’m still here inside it
Holding ground I didn’t claim
But never learned to fight it
If love’s still in the room
It’s quiet, out of the way
It’s a familiar distance
And we stayed

Close enough
Far enough