Your death breath escaped you like a cracked vial,
winging feebly through the chapel of my heart.
I caught the echo, trembling,
a shard of glass slicing through my veins.
You were a broken mirror,
each fragment an unfinished memory,
blood-stained light cutting and piercing,
reflecting the specter of my reverie.
I am the slow falling of stars,
the unwinding of the final strand of sky.
Where your voice once was, there is only silence,
an icy fire brushing the hollows where I cry.
I wear your shadow like a second skin,
bruised and taut across my ribs,
a weight that steals my breathing,
a sorrow that coils through my bones.
Loss is a cruel waltz on shattered glass,
bleeding feet and a heart gone slack.
I walk the vacant places,
chasing your echo through the cracks.
Tears carve rivers through the dust of memory,
flooding the space where your laughter had been.
Each groan a thunderclap in the stillness,
a storm breaking the bolted sky.
I am the fractured poem unfinished,
the last line caught between my lips,
words trembling with everything unsaid,
silence that cuts and splits.
Yet beneath the ruin,
beneath the ash and broken bone,
a fierce, stubborn pulse remains—
the solitary heart that beats alone.
In the wreckage I hear your whispers,
the echoes of days long gone,
a warmth that refuses to die in the cold,
a fire that flickers but carries on.
This love, red-hot, survives as a spark
in the vast night, airless and dark,
a vow adrift on the wind,
wandering but never gone.I hold you in fractured rhythm,
in sorrows that never subside,
the flawed hymn of yearning,
a heartbeat that cannot hide.
Author’s Note:
This poem was written in the wake of personal loss. It’s a reflection of how grief lingers, not just as sorrow, but as something physical and alive. I aimed to capture the beauty of memory, the agony of loss, and the resilience of a love that never fades even in silence. Each picture is a metaphor for how grief distorts and delineates us, how we carry what’s gone, and how we move on.
Gulalai Zeeshan | 14 | United Arab Emirates | @lastminuterevisionn on TikTok
