absence. — Summary

Someone once asked me, "What would you do if they were gone?"

My answer is simple. There will come a day where they are taken away from me. There will come a day where I stop worshipping at their feet. There will come a day when they no longer do what they do. There will come a day, when there are no more 'i love you's'

And there might also me a day where they are taken away from me too soon. Not purposely, but maybe tragically.

And in those days, The sun will no longer radiate warmth, My head; a mass of black matter. Words aren't words they're white noise. Songs aren't songs they're eulogies. Photos aren't photos they're the ghost of what i once used to have.

You promised forever, but why did you leave me so soon? In a blink of an eye, gone. Everything i once knew.

And if that tragic day comes. The sky, there is none but one star. That star, will be only you.

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Someone asks the speaker a hard question: what would you do if the person you love were gone? The answer is not really a plan. It is a list of fears. The speaker admits that love might fade, or that death might take the person too soon, and then describes what that emptiness would feel like.

The mood is heavy and aching. Ordinary things lose their meaning: the sun stops feeling warm, words turn into "white noise," songs become "eulogies," and photos become ghosts. The short lines make the grief feel blunt and stunned. The speaker also sounds a little betrayed, asking why the person broke their promise of "forever."

The ending softens things. Even in the darkest sky, one star remains, and it is the lost loved one. Grief stays, but so does a small, steady light of memory.

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