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Echoes

Did you ever realize that the echoes are the loudest and the longest when the hollowness is the deepest?

Did you ever realize that the echoes are sometimes not the same as the original?
Did it ever occur to you that the echo of laughter could be a wail?
Did you ever hear a giggle turn into a sob?
Did you ever hear a smile turning into a desperate cry for help?


Have you ever heard a loving whisper ricochet across a hollow heart and echo back as a broken voice?
Have you ever heard a lover's hug crawl across a dark space and return to make you feel wretched?
Have you ever seen the warmth of a caress echo back as a haunting loneliness?
Have you ever felt the tender clasp of a beloved turn into a grasping nothingness?


Can you see how the echoes of everything turn into nothing?
Can you see how borrowed time turns to ashes?
Can you see how a fractured fate returns to echo as shards of sorrow?
Can you see how the echoes of all that is impossible, remain impossible?

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