The Ashes

You were the breath that filled my lungs,

A quiet fire where warmth was sung,

Now there's only the biting cold,

A love that’s lost and slipped its hold.

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We spoke in whispers under the night,

As if the darkness kept us tight,

But now our voices fall and fade,

Lost in the echoes of vows we made.

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I reach for you where shadows spill,

Clutching at air that has grown still,

But you are gone, a vanishing dream,

An ache that silences every scream.

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Our love, once whole, now bleeds away,

A garden overgrown with decay,

And I am left to tend the gray,

Of moments burned and turned to clay.

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I would have held you through every tear,

Taken your pain and kept it near,

But I could not calm the storm’s unrest,

That tore our hearts and left us pressed.

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Now I wander through memory's haze,

Where once we danced and braved the blaze,

But the light has dimmed, the shadows sway,

And I'm left alone to let you stray.

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So I bury each fragment, one by one,

And scatter the ashes of all we've done,

For in the end, it’s grief that remains,

And love that quietly breaks its chains.