The weight of an unspoken goodbye. - The Silence After

I held your name

like a flame cupped in trembling hands—

too afraid of the wind,

too afraid of myself.

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The night you left,

the world did not shatter—

it simply folded inwards,

a quiet implosion

that only I could hear.

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I walked through rooms

where your laughter once lived,

and the walls stared back at me

with blank, merciless silence.

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I wished for numbness,

prayed for the mercy of emptiness.

But grief is cruel—

it doesn’t burn,

it lingers like frost,

slowly devouring every corner of your skin

until even breathing feels borrowed.

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I tell myself,

if I could just turn the switch,

shut off the heart,

silence the echoes—

maybe I could learn to stand

without collapsing into memory.

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But the truth is—

even in this loneliness,

even in this hollow where you used to be,

I still love you.

And it is that love—

wild, unbearable, unkillable—

that keeps me here,

longing for a tomorrow

you will never see.

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