<p><br/></p><p>Twice, I’ve lost people. And twice, I’ve been denied the chance to grieve.
</p><p>Like clockwork, life moved on… and so did everyone else.
</p><p>But I didn’t.
</p><p>Somewhere along the way, I stopped feeling. I became mechanical, present, functioning, but hollow.
</p><p>This isn’t the life I chose. Not the path I imagined.
</p><p>I try to hold on to my emotions, but even they seem to slip through.
</p><p>There were days I thought dying might be peaceful… until I saw what it did to those left behind.
</p><p>Grief doesn’t visit gently; it crashes in.
</p><p>The pain is so sharp, it dulls everything else.
</p><p>You stop crying because your eyes forget how.
</p><p>You wonder, “Am I heartless?”
</p><p>But the truth is you’re just broken in places no one can see.
</p><p>When I saw them in the coffin, they looked… calm.
</p><p>Like the world had finally stopped shouting at them.
</p><p>But the silence left behind was deafening.
</p><p>I’ve watched them suffer. Watched life beat the strength out of them.
</p><p>So yes, sometimes, death felt like mercy.
</p><p>Still… it doesn't make it fair.
</p><p>I’ve asked myself a thousand “what ifs.”
</p><p>What if I had done more? Said something? Changed the course?
</p><p>But I know—some things lie beyond our control.
</p><p>Maybe it was fate. Perhaps it was their choice, wrapped in pain I couldn’t see.
</p><p>I’ve wished, silently, to trade places.
</p><p>But all I get is silence in return.
</p><p>So I keep living, not as a hero, not strong, but as a man carrying dreams too big for one lifetime.
</p><p>Mine… and theirs.
</p><p>Still, I ask:
</p><p>Why do the young ones leave this way?</p><p>Why does life take those who haven’t even started living?
</p><p>Can someone, anyone, please tell me why?</p><p><br/></p><p>
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