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No fire. No fall. Just your silence Through it all. No grave was dug, No words were said— But I was gone, Though I wasn’t dead. Love took me Without a fight, And I faded Out of sight.
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The first time I died It wasn’t a storm It wasn’t fire Or something warm It was your name Said in past tense A soft goodbye With no defense It wasn’t loud It didn’t scream It felt like leaving Inside a dream The first time I died, I was in love And no one noticed, not even you I smiled through it, swallowed the flood Wrote my eulogy in shades of blue There was no grave, no violent sound Just silence where I should be found The first time I died, I wore your name Like a wound dressed up in flame You didn’t stab You didn’t shout But you became What I lived without I shrank in shadows You never saw You loved the girl Before the fall No heart attack No crashing blow Just a quiet way To let me go The first time I died, I was in love And no one noticed, not even you I smiled through it, swallowed the flood Wrote my eulogy in shades of blue There was no grave, no violent sound Just silence where I should be found The first time I died, I wore your name Like a wound dressed up in flame Some deaths come Without a blade Just the echo Of trust betrayed The first time I died, it wasn’t fast It was a moment Meant to last No blood, no scream Just letting go Of who I was And who you know
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