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Kelly Trost's avatar

Hi Lyrics,

Don't Come Back means this to me: sometimes we believe we would not have chosen to survive the loss of someone we loved. It is too much to bear. And yes, there is often so much residual guilt it is almost more difficult to survive than the loss itself. But our reason to survive, the reason we must choose to survive, is embodied in these lines:

"Not everyone is saved. Sometimes the only thing left is to not let their death become their final sentence."

When their loss feels so monumental that we feel life is too painful to bear, all we need remember is that even if we don't choose to live for our own sake, we owe it to live it for the one we loved who was lost. Because what you wrote it true. If we're no longer here to remember them, then death will indeed become their final sentence.

This story is beautiful, Lyrics. I am so glad I had the opportunity to read it with the attention and devotion it deserved this morning.

Lyrics and Fire's avatar

Someone is dead the moment we forget him

Kelly Trost's avatar

That’s what I mean. As long as we continue to live and remember, they are not gone. But once we are gone, THEN they are well and truly dead. But not until then. I was trying to underscore the profundity and beauty of your story. It was a compliment.

Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

What stayed with me was not the gunshot, but the weight of surviving after the moment itself has already ended.

This story understands something difficult: grief does not move in a straight line. It settles into gestures, into objects, into the way someone keeps living long after meaning has collapsed.

The ending does not try to redeem the past or purify it. It simply lets life continue carrying what cannot be repaired, and that is exactly why it feels real.

Capry Cains's avatar

Why is this so painful and familiar..

Tears welled in my eyes.

Tears not for the young girl or the baby ,

Not even for Sam,

These unshed tears are for a world that does not understand LOVE , COMPASSION and KINDNESS.

😔

The world understands everything else except that.

Very tragic..

Lyrics and Fire's avatar

The problem starts the moment some parents believe that their children are their propety

Capry Cains's avatar

Yes , you are right.

Parents don't know how to let go of their children.

Leave them free after a point.

Let them make mistakes, learn and live life they want.

Sad truth.

Lyrics and Fire's avatar

Unfortunately, babies don’t come with a manual