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"There But Not Around"
"There But Not Around" can be a friend, family member or even yourself. Write a prose or a poem about someone who is still in you life but not being active (emotionally/mentally/physically/spiritually) in it for whatever reason. Good luck for the winner!

I stood there by your side

I stood there by your side as I watched you wither. Your rosy cheeks turned to hollow and your warm hug turned to a weak cold clasp.

You looked me in the eye and said you are living, but I looked back and there was no life left. The deceit of your lies has made me reach out into that deep abyss to save you from falling to the bottom. But you put on armor so impenetrable my hand had slipped and I lost you to the fiend of your mind.

I tried to dive deep, swim through the broken shards, open the gates of loneliness and yet you locked the door and built a new wall between us. Then my breath finished.

Many years have passed and my heart got fixed and I started to live. And now when I look at you, I must look away as there is still that abyss in your eyes inviting me fall into that old cold cell.

I stood there by your side, but now my heart is away.

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We can’t save them. They have to want to save themselves.