Untangled
The knots untangled, the weights finally let down, you slept your way through the dawn... unmoved, unbothered, detached, and calm. While the world around you trembled with your absence, maybe more worried about surviving the loss than knowing how to face it. And maybe I should be happy that I no longer have to watch you in pain, through that painful life, through that endless cycle to sustain. The songs you sang, the stories you told, the lessons you taught, the memories of you that i still hold Were they little pieces of you, you left with us, knowing that one day we would need them to remember you? I let you sleep while I stood there with tears in my eyes, trying to memorize a face I already knew by heart. And I whispered— "I want you to remember me in every other life you take." I just have you within me. In the air I breathe. In the silence between my thoughts. In the energy that surrounds me. In every little thing that somehow still feels like you exist. In the wardrobe ...