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You Still Linger In My Mind

Poetry

Mia
3 min readAug 31, 2024
Photo by Anneliese Phillips on Unsplash

You linger in my mind, like a shadow I can’t escape.
Every path we walked down together, every quiet street where our laughter echoed, still haunts me.
Each corner we turned, hand in hand, feels empty now, but your presence is always there, just out of reach.
I retrace those steps in my mind, wishing I could go back, even just for a moment —
Back to the days when everything felt lighter, when the world was just you and me.

Every country we travelled to, the adventures we shared, the sights that took our breath away —
They’re all etched in my heart, like postcards from a time I can’t get back.
I still see us, standing on the edge of the world, believing that we could conquer anything together.
The thrill of new places, the excitement of getting lost and finding our way back, it all feels like a distant dream now.
But those places, they hold pieces of us, fragments of the love we built in every sunrise and every sunset we watched together.

And those inside jokes, the ones only we understood — they still make me smile, even now.
They come to me in quiet moments, reminders of a time when we were everything to each other.
I miss how…

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