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Echoes

Echoes
Now I am well and recovered from illness
I see what I have lost, life has moved on for others
I see echoes of what might have been,
What I used to be, look like and what I am now.

I feel grief, pain and suffering,
I feel the emptiness, confusion and instability.
I feel echoes of what might have been,
What I used to be, look like and what I am now.

I was on a road that swerved and crashed
I was going somewhere and now I am lost
I was and now I am an echo of the past
What I used to be, look like and what I am now.

I cannot go back; the road is no longer there
I cannot be who I used to be, that person is no longer there
I cannot let the echo of the past define me.
I am a different person, on a different road, in a different reality.


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