How do I grieve the living?

Описание: How do you grieve the living?

This piece is for anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a love that still exists in flesh but not in spirit. It’s about the ache of realising that the person you once cherished was never who you imagined them to be and the haunting beauty of loving them anyway.

I hope this speaks to you in someway, let me know your thoughts in the comments. 💙

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HOW DO I GRIEVE THE LIVING

How do you deal with the loss of what once was?
How do I grieve the living?
How do I go on knowing you’ll live life without me in it
I envy people who get to know you
Be with you
Speak to you
See you
Why did you rob me of you?

We used to talk laugh cry in black cabs
Sit in the back, me on your lap
Whisper to me
Look at me
Trace my neck with your tongue
Now I’m sentenced to a lifetime of memory
I sit lonely
Envisioning where you used to be
In the black cab next to me

All i taste is the metallic emptiness of life without you
The space illuminated by the headlights
In the world we created, where only you and I existed
We’d decide what is wrong and what was right.
Is love the ultimate prison sentence or true freedom?
Polarised belief within. It paralyses me.

Everywhere is laced with the fragrance of you
I look for you everywhere and in everything
I archive our moments like artefacts, terrified that without them, the you I cherished will fade in to fiction
Maybe I should marvel at my creative power
My imagination created a better version of you was that were you were afraid of all along?
That I would see you for who you really are
Electric currents of ecstasy, tsunamis of tenderness, a passion drenched in euphoria and felicity.
I can’t help but record our love with an ink that drips with intimacy.
I will spend forever writing about you, drafting scenes of your enchanting and powerful spirit.
I love you until the end of time and I will let the world marvel in the memories of what it is like to be loved by you.