“Guilt after losing someone you loved, feeling alone after and unable to move on”

The clock ticks hollow in the midnight room,  
Where memories gather, dust is their perfume—  
You left the world with silence on your lips,  
A love departed, slipping from my grip.  

I pace the echo of an empty hall,  
Your laughter rising faintly from the wall,  
My shadow haunted by the words unsaid,  
A thousand sorrys tangled in my head.  

Guilt, like winter, settles on my chest—  
The pages we could never write, the rest  
Of lifetimes bundled in a single sigh;  
There is no answer to my asking why.  

Nights are gentle jailers: locked alone,  
I cradle phones with voices turned to stone  
And chase the shape you made beneath our sheets,  
Where loneliness and longing always meet.  

Mornings find me wading through the grey,  
Afraid to let the smallest piece of you decay,  
Afraid to step beyond the grief I bear—  
As if relief would mean you weren’t once there.  

Perhaps, in time, forgiveness softly comes:  
Not for you, but for the heart I’ve become,  
A heart that mourns, remembers, cannot flee—  
Yet loves you, bound in sorrow, endlessly.

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