A Body That Forgot Its Soul

‏You have become absence…

‏Your absence,

‏Like a soft, whispering breeze,

‏Silently slipping past your presence,

‏Leaving you trapped within a cage

‏With no windows—

‏A body that no longer feels like home.

‏You were once the peach blossom,

‏A fleeting spark of spring’s gentle breath,

‏Radiant in your brief, tender half-life,

‏Then slowly, softly, you withered away—

‏Gathered in silent sorrow,

‏Like an autumn leaf falling,

‏Drifting away from the branch of life…

‏What remains is but an empty shell,

‏Devoid of your essence—

‏You vanished from within existence itself.

‏I seek you inside yourself,

‏But you are lost,

‏A stranger to your own soul,

‏Like a shadow swallowed by mist.

‏You were the fairest blossom of the cherry tree,

‏Yet before you could bear fruit,

‏You slipped from the tender stem…

‏The tree of life cast you away,

‏Leaving you behind

‏With muted grief and endless voids.

‏Estranged from your own being,

‏Hope abandoned you,

‏And you let go of hope…

‏Now all that lingers is a shell,

‏No longer yours to claim,

‏Where can I find you?

‏Where do you hide?

‏In your final moments of silence,

‏You burned brighter than ever—

‏A lone star amid the dark expanse,

‏Searching for a light to turn absence into presence,

‏A light that never came to shine…

‏You were the loneliest among the crowd,

‏The most invisible among the visible…

‏And now,

‏You have released your grip on life,

‏But not into peace,

‏Not into freedom—

‏Rather, upon a never-ending road,

‏Where absence and presence

‏Like restless waves entwine,

‏Forever locked in an endless dance,

‏And you still search for yourself—

‏A self perhaps never to be found…

‏Now, in the eyes of many, you are more invisible than ever,

‏Yet in my eyes, you still glow—

‏Though the hour is late,

‏Your flame may be dimmed, but your memory burns eternal.

‏I seek you still,

‏But you do not open to be found…

‏Lost along an endless path,

‏Gone forever, yet never truly gone from my heart.

To every soul lost within the fog of memory, and to the hearts that still remember them.