When you left, it was like my favorite library went down in monstrous flames like my affiliate soccer club losing by a very close margin the decisive games it was like a great storm pouring on your first visit to the beach yet you saved a lifetime, and journeyed a 1000 miles to get there and you doubt you'll ever make it to the Lake side again It was like taking a bullet close to the heart that didn't **** you instantly it choked you, but left you to gasp for breath and deal with the pain knowing you'll eventually succumb to the throb and the ooze like that split second after you kick the bucket that you dread the noose but there's no turning back, no way to survive even with a million clues It was like being caught in the open by an unanticipated hurricane fully aware you're either going by being blown by a giant cyclone or freeze to a human marble before the force is come It was like a catchy novel ending with a melancholic twist you wish you never started reading in the first place like, at the eleventh hour, your Dobby burning the wedding dress leaving you an angry bride and a whole other mess that would live after you like your shadow at dawn for the rest of your life It was like rewatching your favorite childhood film and realizing it wasn't as good as you always thought and wondering why you went turning over the rocks of the past like finding out your best friend is boyfriend to your secret crush It was like losing a close person to a plane crush or an inferno you receive bits and pieces, you bury the ashes yet the hopes survive, yet nothing haunts like when such hopes are alive you live after the belief that someday they'll fly out oblivion like a phoenix and hug you tight if only for just one more time it was like finding a free verse that beats all rhyme in a collection so tattered that most of it can't be read so you're left dying of curiosity and dread Losing you was like saying goodbye to your friends at graduation conscious it could be the end to a great season of your existence but trying so hard to resist asking the obvious question or one that wouldn't hatch answers but unfortunate tension it was worse, it was agreeing to meet after a year and being the only one that showed up at the rendezvous it was believing the folk stories and growing up to the realization that none of it was true It made my childhood roses and chocolate but what do I have now that Santa won't bring an avalanche of breathtaking kisses to my lips on Christmas Eve? Losing you changed me, if anything, for worse it was like watching my soul burn when you left like a wild fire that I doubt even time knows when it will stop that's how big a difference you made in my life and I don't care whether you believe me or not after all I don't even believe I let you in that deep. I was stupid to open all the doors and windows and think only the rays of good intentions would sip in. You were my everything and guess what? when you left, there was nothing left! Not even me...