madilyn alwardt Poet Free verse

I Am Gone

I Am Gone
I am gone,
 not like smoke disappearing into the sky,
 but like a song
 left playing in an empty room.
My laughter still hangs
 in the corners of old memories,
 but nobody notices
 how quiet I’ve become.
I walk through days
 like a ghost wearing my own face,
 smiling when I’m supposed to,
 speaking when silence would tell the truth.
The mirrors know it most.
 They see the fading —
 the tired eyes,
 the heart stitched together with invisible thread.
I am gone
 in the way sunsets leave the ocean,
 slowly, beautifully,
 without anyone realizing
 the light is almost over.
And maybe one day
 someone will search for the version of me
 that used to bloom so brightly,
 only to find
 I left pieces of myself
 in every place I tried to belong.

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