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jesuismoi87:

Charlie Winston - She Went Quietly

There’s really not so much to tell.

She was 29, showing signs of doing well

for herself.

She never spoke of feeling sad.

Was, oh, so close with the family and friends

she had around her.

But she went quietly.

She didn’t make a sound.

She went quietly

with the wish not to be found.

She went quietly

without a word of where.

Just a note that wrote:

“Forgetting is easier.”

Years have fallen since the day

she wrote the note and chose to float away

into the Ether.

Someone said they saw her south

at the coast on the river’s mouth, 

but only briefly.

Out of the blue, in the pouring rain, 

to my doorstep, old and cold today she came, 

with her story.

I asked her in, but she declined.

Had just one, single thing to get off her mind.

And, that was, “Sorry.”