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Watch Me Perish

My hearing is filled
With my tiny sobs
They echo and echo
Bouncing off the walls.

I can hear nothing,
Absolutely nothing
In the sea of my loneliness.
I've wept for so long,
Because you're gone,
I've been sucked into this vast emptiness.

Leaving me with a mind
That won't just shut down.
I'm just trying to find a reason,
But I can't remember what I did wrong

You aren't around,
So my torture won't ever reach you.
It won't claw at your skin,
Not a scratch, not a bruise.
Oh! But how I wish it would.

Your kisses will forever mark,
this aching body.
A body shivering
Quivering
From the overwhelming tragedy.

This darkness seems to be
Coming down on me.
I, alone, suffer with this anguish.
And even if you were here
All that you'd do,
even though you know I love you,
Is watch me perish.