You said I was your whole world,

but the world shattered like the thinnest glass

that evening when your breaths

grew quieter than the falling snow

I carried your words like a secret fire,

an ember that never wanted to go out

Now it burns alone in the darkness,

without your hands around mine

And I walk through the nights

as if I still hear you whisper

But all that remains

is the shadow of your promise

and the echo of a love

that was never meant to stay

You left me with the sky in my hands

You said I was your whole world

and I believed you, every syllable

But when the light in your eyes died

the sky fell straight into my hands

I tried to hold on to you

as if love could defy time’s hunger

But the night took you anyway

silent and relentless as the depths of the sea

Now I wander with the sky in my hands

cracked, blue, and heavy with longing

And every time the wind touches me

it feels like you’re trying to say

that the world you gave me

still bears your name

You said I was your whole world,

and I replied that you were mine.

But neither of us knew

how quickly a world can fall apart.

When you closed your eyes,

something vanished from the air,

as if time itself had stopped

to listen to your last breath.

I stand amidst the ruins

of everything we never got to do.

And yet, in every shard,

your promise still glimmers—

that love doesn’t die,

it just changes form

and waits for us in the light

You said I was your whole world,

and now I stand here

on the edge of the world that died with you.

The coffin is covered in white roses,

so quiet they almost apologize

for still being alive

The rain falls as if the sky

can no longer hold itself together

The priest says your name

as if it were an object,

something you can set aside

But I hear it as a scream

inside my chest—

a piercing memory of everything

that can never return

As they lower you,

it feels as if the ground

is pulling half of me down with it

As if the earth knows

that you were my only direction

And I whisper

though no one hears

You said I was your whole world

but what am I now

when your world lies beneath the ground

A lone bird cries out in the distance

and the sound cuts right through me

like a crack in glass

I stand there

with hands that tremble

and a heart that no longer knows

how to beat without you

and I walk home alone from your grave

with a world that no longer exists

and the earth that took you still holds me fast

because when they laid you to rest, they also laid to rest the last of me

and all that remains now is the silence where your heart used to beat

You said I was your whole world

and now I stand here without you