A true liberation
Your shadow lingers,
following me everywhere.
When my lips speak
the words were once yours,
I wonder
why do I still carry
what is already gone?
In the place you once lived,
my heart gathers dust,
stitched with quiet spiderwebs.
Each attempt to erase you
smears your memory deeper.
Like a horcrux,
your absence survives in me
to destroy it
feels like destroying myself,
I despise you for that.
And yet,
fragments of what we were
still pulse beneath my skin,
quickening my heart
at every remembrance.
To never repeat,
I must remember.
After a love undone,
you become a distant star
fixed in my night sky.
Let the pain stay,
like an uninvited guest.
It will leave
when it learns
it is no longer feared.
Only then will
a true liberation arrive.
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