Short poems aimed to describe the feeling of losing someone without really losing them, but yourself. And how painful it can be to discover that even to your own self, your past version will never come back. All that's left is the current version, l...
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I search for fragments of you In every face In every smile I trace the curve of your grace Eyes that glimmer Hands that hold tight I look for your warmth In the cold of the night Every laugh echoes your gentle sound In every embrace I hope to be found. But their touch feels empty Their words fall flat, No one is you And I can't change that I seek your gaze In a stranger's stare Hoping to find the comfort You once shared But the truth lingers Bitter yet clear No one else can bring you near I look for a bit of you In every guy I meet But it's like chasing shadows So incomplete For you're a ghost that lingers Won't set me free And I realize now The piece missing is me.
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Every new encounter felt like a quiet search A scavenger hunt with no end in sight I'd catch a smile across a crowded room And for a moment it was almost like seeing you again That familiar spark would flicker So briefly, so brightly Just enough to make my heart skip I'd lean in, hoping, aching for the warmth You once carried in your laugh in your touch But it would fade, like a candle blown out And the cold would settle back in Every date was the same I'd listen, waiting for that one word That one tone in their voice That would bring you back to me Even if just for a moment Sometimes, I almost believed I'd found it A cadence in their laughter, a tilt in their smile But it would slip away Like a dream I couldn't quite remember When I woke up I'd be left with an emptiness A hollow ache, and the realization That I was still searching for you In every person that I meet I would study their eyes Desperate to catch a glimpse of you Something that would remind me Of the way you used to look at me As if I was the only person in the world But no gaze had your light And no lips could shape my name the way you did Soft and sincere, as if it was meant just for me So I kept collecting fragments Pieces of strangers who reminded me of you A laugh here, a glance there The way they brushed a stray strand of hair From my face, just as you used to do I tried to fit them together Like a puzzle I was determined to solve But the pieces never quite matched They were jagged, ill-fitting Leaving gaps that felt bigger with each attempt I wanted to believe I could recreate you From these remnants, that if I looked hard enough Searched long enough, I could stitch together A version of you from someone else's fate But every time, it was almost, but not quite Close, but always just shy of the memory That haunted me The more I tried, the more I realized That I wasn't chasing you anymore I was chasing an echo, a shadow of the love I had lost And shadows, no matter how hard you run after them Always slip away when you get close.
