the silence stabs me and i bleed tears of emptiness that chokes me with memories your unexpected flight into eternity has left me strangling on your smells like fingerprints left upon all objects and the cold inside me is bitter your desertion on this journey alone that leaves me gasping on my tears and i gaze toward the empty window and imagine i see the light of your reflection but only emptiness greets my eyes the accident that drowned our love leaves only an empty shell of longing and the silence stabs me

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