{"sf1_id":2187073,"sf2_id":"V1YraOve","title":"A short poem","author":"Sy Rivers","words":310,"posted_at":"2024-10-09T15:23:07.000Z","tags":["Depression","Poem","Sad","mental health"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2187073-a-short-poem","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/V1YraOve","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/27/95/2795c247-df96-4d8b-bfb7-b662c80f329f","description":"Imported from SF2 with no description.","content":"I have not experienced this specifically but, something like it, a less dire version of such a thing. I was on the verge, an\u0026nbsp;edge of no return, I wrote this solely to help, because I have been in the same place as both characters in this piece.\n\n===\n\n_A single breath, filled with five\u0026nbsp;words_\n\n_a life like no other to live in his hold_\n\n_my life is his and his is mine_\n\n_if only we had the time_\n\n_to tell each other what it really meant_\n\n_before the night when he was dead_\n\n_It was a cold night_\n\n_we said our goodbyes sitting at a kneel,_\n\n_he spoke in a soft voice \"Don't live in my spite\"_\n\n_I left that night wondering what he had meant_\n\n_\"spite?\" I asked, \"for how does that feel?\"_\n\n_\"I know no thing that can cause me to feel\"_\n\n_\"In such a way against my breath, my breath of life, who I love best\"\u0026nbsp;_\n\n_The dead of night the deed was done, my lover was gone his heart turned cold_\n\n_when I visit him, I scream aloud, breaking into tears I see it now_\n\n_\"he wanted me to forgive him, he believed it was him, no it was me, my actions, my strife\"_\n\n_My time was spent grieving and crying, believing I had done wrong_\n\n_the blame was not really mine but on everyone_\n\n_but I cried, I tried to follow his song_\n\n_I was stopped, by a smiling face, who taught me to live for him, live in him._\n\n_My life continued at a steady pace, but I never forgot his pain and wondered, why._\n\n---\n\nThe lesson to take away you ask? Death causes pain; leaves mysteries that will never be solved, I hope anyone hurting out there with the pains of the boyfriend or the main character may be helped by this."}