The Broken String - by Nimnim

Gone. I search for her in the dark shadows of night, but I can't believe she's truly gone. Just yesterday she smiled at me, saying goodbye like a secret whisper in the wind. How can she be gone? I didn't cry when I saw her still body, quiet in a way that screamed too loud. I didn't dare to step closer, as if moving would make the pain more real. People thought I had no heart, like a stone statue of sadness. People thought I was in shock, feeling nothing from the ache inside. I kept trying to understand what went wrong, like tracing shadows on a moonlit wall. I kept telling myself it wasn't her, just a quick dream in the dark. The more I looked, the more I lost hope, lost in a maze of memories. Alone in the night, I knelt where shadows danced with streetlights above me. Finally, warm tears fell from my eyes like autumn rain on dry ground. I held my chest, unable to breathe, as if the air itself had turned to sadness. Why do I feel this way? She's not dead, I whispered into the cold night air, like a prayer to shadows. She's here, she's here, I kept saying, holding onto the cold ground like it was my only hope in a fading dream. My hands were bruised from grabbing at nothing, but I didn't care. Everything rushed into my head like a storm at midnight. She didn't smile or wave at me. She left in tears that night under a sky that cried too. We fought, and I broke up with her. I saw the pain in her eyes, like a mirror showing my own. I wanted to stop her, but my pride wouldn't let me, like a chain holding back a heart that wanted to run. She'll come back eventually, I told myself, like a lie whispered to calm a child. But I kept waiting under skies that turned to stone. She never came back. She meant it when she said she was gone forever, like a door closed on moonlight. I was too scared to believe it. That's why I couldn't cry at her funeral, where the earth sang a last lullaby. I kept telling myself she wouldn't leave me forever. But she did. Death took her away on a quiet path where shadows lead. It's my fault; I pushed her into death's cold arms, like a leaf blown into winter. I don't deserve to live. I want to tell her I'm sorry. I want to hug her one last time, like holding onto a fading star. I want to look into her eyes and forget my worries, like drowning in a quiet pool. Please, I whispered a silent prayer into the night, like a leaf shaking in the dark. Please come back to me. But it was too late, a song ended on a broken string. I live with guilt, walking shadows on a forgotten wall. I just want her to be happy, wherever she is, like moonlight on distant waves. I won't stop loving her. I won't let this world forget her, like trying to carve shadows in stone. I'll love her until my last breath, a heartbeat in twilight. Maybe one day I'll find her. Maybe...

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