la tristesse durera toujours
For you, the one I barely knew
You’re gone:
a leap, the water beneath,
& now I’ll never see you again.
You’re gone…
fuck
Few words carry a lot here. The speaker is addressing someone who has died, and the poem suggests the death came by a fall into water: "a leap, the water beneath." It never says whether the leap was chosen or accidental, and that gap makes it feel more raw, as if the speaker can't bring themselves…
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