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Death

the concept of Death is as solid as mist can get

We see it, we understand it but not completely

and just like mist we can never fully grasp it.

 

living is too.

 

It baffles me to this day

of how something

someone

so tangible

can spirit away

never to be seen or heard from ever again

 

There will be days where you will have things to talk about

with a specific person

only to remember that they are no longer around

 

You ought to think what they might think of the stories you have been saving

at the back pocket of your jeans.

 

It hurts not to be able to share things

with a person who is no longer around.

 

Their voices that were once a treble now have turned into a faint echo

only to be heard in the hollow hole that they have left in your heart

where their glow once stood

 

Their warm touch are now but a lingering sting on your skin

Seething pain that come and go with every memory that pass through

the tunnels of your cerebrum.

 

It’s unfair of those who have gone before us to be able to still see us

for them to spectate as the years, months, weeks, days, minutes, seconds pass.

 

but I recon it must be as painful for them as it is for us.

 

to be able to see loved ones, loved things and not be able to interact

and live life with them in the present.

 

But such as all things, this is merely but the passing of time.

 

and our time will come too.

 

and maybe then it might not be a goodbye but a sweet hello

as we peer into the void and see them at the other side

A joyous reunion

 

the concept of Death is as solid as mist can get

We see it, we understand it but not completely

and just like mist we can never fully grasp it.

 

but one day we will

only when we have crossed to the other side of the twilight.

 

You won’t be able to understand the rest of the story until you flip to the next page.

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Written by
marlo-cabrera
Filipino
Published
Feb 15, 2019
Lines·Words
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Notes

Just lost a dear friend.

Tags
#sadness#death#loss
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