The Shadows Of Your Face by CupofCharlie, literature
Literature
The Shadows Of Your Face
'Sometimes you can't make it on your own'
- U2.
‘You didn’t see me I was falling apart,
I was a television version of a person with a broken heart’
- The National.
The deafening silence hangs over the house like dust. I stare at the empty dog basket in the corner of the kitchen. His thoroughly chewed tennis ball still sits in the centre of it, frayed and discoloured, waiting to be played with. But not today. Not anymore. Even though it hurts to be constantly faced with reminders of his absence, I can’t bear to take them away. Because that would make it real. That would make his death undeniable; something I wou