Fourth Edit: Hometown

[Solstice]

I
I had to leave while you were asleep.
I'm sorry it had to be that way. Having been here before, it's a simple, to the point stanza. I like it.

The moonlight was translucent solace,
the dark sky didn't judge
as I pretended to decide on
a decision I'd already made.
I remembered walking home that last day,
your pavement hot and cracked Hot? pavement at night or early a.m., you must live in a higher temperature place than me.
like a young lover's promise. 

II
After almost a year, I returned. Going back to one's ex, as cliche as it gets, but good when written well.
You seemed more beautiful than before, 
and this made me hate you worse.

Good poem, no fluff words, and it is simple. Almost too simple. But, I think it has an atmosphere of the narrator holding back some emotion, perhaps for making another take at the same object of affection.