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I Can't Live Without You.


You. 

A life without you. 

I can't think.

I can't breathe. 

I reach into the darkness only to find infinite emptiness.

To be with you is life.  

I will wait a thousand sunsets to be in your presence yet thousands more still can't bring you back.  

You left me not by choice but by fate.  

And now my fate is worse than yours.  

The pain you felt in your last breath lives on through me.  

So what is life without you?

It's not life at all.  

It's a prison sentence without parole.  

Locked away within myself.

Pain forms the bars that keep me prisoner. 

There are no keys to unlock this cell. 

Execution can't even free me.  

My sentence is eternity.  

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