Poem: Fading Away

I should’ve done all to make you stay

I shouldn’t have let you get away 

Instead I just froze and stayed that way

And what we had had died that day

There’s nothing left for me to say
I cannot face another day
Without you here I cannot stay 
My mere existence fading away

If I cannot function when I press play
Then what am I doing here anyway 
An inner voice whispers to me today 
It should’ve been me that died that day

Written July 22, 2025

 

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