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Behind a broken smile


How does it feel

To fade away?

While you drown

In your darkest memory

Nobody cares

But does anyone know?

The smile you wear

That it's just a show

Here I will wonder

If there's something I can do

But you won't remember

Because you never knew

I stood there watching

All your helpless pleads

Though what could I do?

There was nothing left to cease

But now I think back,

Back to that time

While you would suffer

In your very own mind

Here, I am left

With all of you cries

And without a goodbye

Though surely one day,

I will also die

 

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