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**Empty spaces where your laughter once echoed,**

**Silence heavy as winter's first snow.**

**Days stretch long, colorless and cold,**

**Like a story with pages untold.**

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**I reach for memories, fading wisps of you,**

**Trying to fill the void that remains.**

**But life without you is a half-finished painting,**

**A song without its refrain.**

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**Yet somehow, the world keeps turning,**

**And I learn to breathe anew.**

**Finding strength in the spaces between heartbeats,**

**Slowly growing around the absence of you.**

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