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This Is For You

By Half and One
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This Is For You

You came to me in the warmth of summer 

I was afforded a home, a shelter 

What I knew of melancholia

Became knowledge that had abandoned me 

Loneliness had been my company 

It was all I knew 

You held my heart so accustomed to the cold 

And I knew then what existed beyond my solitude

You left me in the dead of winter 

And all that I am now is empty

I had forgotten the sting of loneliness.

I was unafraid in solitude, 

But the fear of eternal isolation has found me

My body craves the warmth of your love 

And now that I know of happiness 

The pain of despair will consume me whole.

I reach for you in the cold night 

To be met with your absence 

An emptiness colder than a dead star.

In the darkness, I find that I fight 

It’s with dread I see it makes no sense 

To fight for one who no longer wants your arms 

I reach for the warmth that you give 

To find only a disparaging voice 

That tells me loneliness is my fate 

How did I lose all but the will to live 

In only trying to stifle the deafening noise 

That speaks of true love as only a naive tale 

I reach for you, in the emptiness of the night 

And I can swear on the life left in my bones

I can feel your warmth in my arms 

With my eyes closed, in dreams where all is right 

You have found your way back to your home 

And in my dreams, your home is where I am. 

The stark reminder of your absence lives in my unhappiness 

And I will keep it close at hand

Written by Katelyn Emma Syiem 

Edited by Naphtali Jordan Langstieh


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Posted On: July 29, 2022
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