Left Only In Memories

Not everyone stays by your side,
yet not everyone
can be forgotten.

Some faces
don’t fade with time,
they just
settle somewhere far away.

We keep moving forward,
smiling,
meeting new people—
but deep inside,
that space remains empty
where someone once was.

Perhaps that is life’s truth—
some people
don’t come to walk with us,
they come
to change us.

And after changing us,
they themselves
remain
only in memories.