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I don't want to wander those places where our footsteps have long since passed, Down shaded alleys where our memories whisper and stand guard like stone sentries, I no longer wish to hear those songs, symphonies of the past, nor let them steal my thought. To wrap myself in your now absent shawl of longing and your kisses, as though they never were. Echo of laughter, tightrope walker on the heart's string, I won't let you spin me around, To recall your face, a bastion of joy, which I would have painted in the most playful hues. I no longer desire to search for you among fragments of memory, to see you in every little detail, To excavate your visages from the neglected corners of time's dusty albums. I miss 'us,' but I don't want to rewrite our story, each page bearing our joint signature. To no longer yearn for what's been lost, for the echoes of your footsteps that resonated in my chest. I don't want to cry again, to let the tears of missing you wash over my face. To let the pain sink into the abyss, no longer feeling each caress that brought solace. Noon when I no longer summon your laughter, thunderous waves crashing over my soul, Nor how your face, once an island of happiness lost, could be my guiding light. I don't want to make you cry or to hurt you, to break the wings of your dreams with my inadequacy, Please, do not inflict heart scratches anymore, in this ongoing war to remain standing. I don't want to hear you say you miss me, words like arrows into the vulnerable veins of 'us.' Nor to utter, even in a whisper, that I miss you, for longing burns like a brand that is not there. To no longer feel the red-hot iron of love trouble me again, I'm afraid... To not fall into your net once more, into the weavings of your heart. I don't want to… I don't want to…
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