Erasing Me Without a Sound

When you wished to erase me
You did not scream, you did not shout
You simply stopped giving me importance
You did not stand by me in my pain
You did not acknowledge my words
You wrapped yourself in silence
As if I had never existed at all…
I did not break
When the world argued with me,
When people denied me…
I truly shattered
The moment I saw myself
Disappear in the eyes
I once called my own.
You whether knowingly or unknowingly
Erased me from within
Sometimes by crushing my desires
Sometimes by calling my truth a lie.
At times, you saw the light within me
Yet still, you pushed me back
Not because I was unworthy
But because you feared
Being left behind.
You watched my dreams
Begin to take shape
But instead of giving me courage
You built walls of discouragement.
You buried my kindness
Under the weight of your silence
And the words that could have lifted me
Died upon your lips.
You ignored my illness
Hiding behind the excuse of busyness
And sometimes you bought someone else’s smile
With another’s sacrifice
And that other… was me.
No… you did not break me outwardly
You let me die slowly
Quietly… within.
On the surface, everything seemed fine
But inside, my existence
Was dissolving away.
Remember…
To erase me
You never needed a knife
You only had to stop caring
Take your love back
Stop listening to me…
And slowly,
I drifted away
Not just from you…
But from myself.