When?
When?
When did your smile
Start costing so much?
When?
When did a word,
Just one word,
Start requiring such labor?
When?
When did those scars
Start becoming so frequent?
When?
When did the gold necklace
Get so easily,
Every so slightly,
Get replaced by a noose?
When did the light
Cast such long shadows?
When?
When did your eyes
Start looking so sunken?
When?
When did you stop
Waiting for my call?
When?
When did you stop
Wearing that colorful dress,
The one that I got you?
When?
When did the sight of me,
Start filling you with dread?
When?
When did the peacock
Suddenly become a raven?
When?
When did life
Become death?
Why?
Now that I am gone,
Why do you miss me?
You do, don’t you?
But don’t you worry,
My dear,
Even as life,
Showed you the worst,
Worst in me,
The worst of me,
I was slowly drawn,
To you,
With you,
In you.
You hated me,
Now you can’t live,
Without me,
I am your shadow.
Absolutely wonderful!
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