Emotional Detachment

It doesn't come overnight

But crawls in slowly when you're trying hard to hold on

Until you finally give up

And know it is time to move on.

When you hold your expectations too high

And others don't understand what you need or why

You keep holding on to hope for someday

When they will realise and come by.

But alas the day never arrives

The final shreds of hope tear apart and die

You know gradually that it will never be the same again

And hoping against hope will only make you cry

It feels so hard and so lonely

Why is life like this?

You question your very existence, your identity

Did you really deserve it?

With no other way in sight

You draw to your shell, away from limelight

Detached you become, not suddenly but in time,

With no choice left, you just go quiet.

Simply go quiet. 💔