When I am All Alone

By Vaishavi Ashokkumar Oza

I remember the night I called you precious,

 And you said, "Then keep me close with you."

 But now, you re slipping through my hands,

 Like sand I was never meant to hold.

I still remember the way you'd ask, 

Small questions that unmasked my mask :

"How was your day, vaish? Did you eat? Did you sleep?" 

Your words were so simple and so soft, 

Yet it made my heart feel like i finally belonged somewhere.

Those little things,

The way you remembered what others forgot —

 It made me feel like, maybe, just maybe, 

I wasn't invisible after all, 

But now, everything feels different.

I search for you in the old messages, 

You were the one who made me feel heard,

When the world called me too much without a second thought.

With you, my thoughts were never heavy;

Just pieces of me you held without hesitation.

Now, every unsaid word hangs like a between us, Every memory feels like a fragile thread I'm scared to let go of.

I wish I hadn't confessed —not because I regret what I felt,

But because I didn't know it would place a distance i can't cross, 

I never wanted to lose the way we talked, 

The ease, the comfort, the quiet understanding, You mattered - you still do - and no words could change that.

I just wish you knew that I never expected anything, Just the bond we once had, 

the way it made everything feel okay,

So, if nothing else, please...

Don't you ever become a stranger,

Not when you were the one person who made me feel like I wasn't alone,

Not when you once felt like home.

By Vaishavi Ashokkumar Oza