I am gone

I am gone
like the whiff of wind
for I stalled for long
longing for you
holding my yearning heart
to get your attention
for you to accept my love

I am gone
for despite of showing
utmost sincerity in my words
and in displaying my earnest love
you showed ignorance
and left me hanging for eternity

I am gone
for your callous abrasion
for taking me for granted
showing me hope
and then snapping it away
for your boisterous claim
assuming I will never be gone

You may think it is a false alarm
and I will return
like flowers returning in spring
like the moon coming out of silhouette
like the sun appearing every dawn
but this time you are wrong
for I am gone
never to return again

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83 thoughts on “I am gone”

  1. I know. But you know sometimes it is good to let go. Life has so much more. But often we live in the past or held in the present than liberating. I always appreciate your kind comment. Thanks for reading my work. I truly appreciate it ❤️

  2. Thank you Wendi. Sometimes letting go is most difficult but most reliving as well. I have personally experienced it. Always love your comment and perspective. Btw “I am gone” is slang and I used it intentionally. Did you notice 😊

  3. I agree! Been there, done that…and I realised, ‘to let go’ someone or something is at times the best thing you can do to yourself. 🌸🌸
    Reading you is always a pleasure. 😀

  4. Follow what Elsa says and Let it go😄

    To let go is a difficult and one of the most hardest decisions of life.But sometimes we have to do what we have to do for the sake of others and ourselves too.

    I bet whoever I have let go in my life have thanked god later🤣

  5. Letting go is hard, but we have to face up to it at some point. Well written!

  6. Such a painful exposition of letting go. Every verse speaks of the pain and the disappointment when taken for granted in a relationship. A feeling we all have endeared once or another in our lives. Very well portrayed, Shantanu.

  7. Awesome stuff. And, oh God, I have done that to someone before so I’m feeling all the guilts lol but I’m glad they’re happy now.

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