A Proposal Made of Absence
Today is Propose Day.
They say it’s about courage—
about standing in front of someone
and asking for a future.
But I have already done that,
just not in front of you.
I proposed to you in silence.
In the way I remembered your pauses,
in how I protected your absence
instead of turning it into anger.
I never knelt.
I never held a ring.
I held restraint.
Because sometimes loving someone
means not asking them to stay
when you know they deserve peace.
If I had spoken,
it would have sounded like hope.
And I was afraid hope
might feel like pressure.
So I chose a quieter proposal—
one that asked for nothing,
promised nothing,
yet remained faithful.
I proposed by letting you go
without making you a wound.
By wishing for your happiness
even if it didn’t include my name.
Today, people celebrate acceptance.
I celebrate understanding.
Because some proposals
are not meant to be answered.
They are meant
to be lived with.
— Robotic Rooh
