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2019-03-02
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I don't miss you (but I may be in denial)

Summary:

a post-Alone poem about Daryl's thoughts as he continues with Team Family as he totally doesn't think about who's missing still from the group.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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I don't miss you


Following the others
as we trudge through the forest,
I glance over my shoulder
and I don’t see you.

It's not your memory that hangs over me.
It's not your voice I hear in my ear.

I don't feel the aching in my chest
that has definitely not been resonating
since I watched that car drive away with you.

I don't blame myself
(when have I ever done that)
because it wasn't my fault.

I don't feel your absence
(I don't look for you in the distance)

because I do not miss you.

Notes:

Wrote this during the beginning of s5 when I was taking a creative writing course back in the day for college (of course in the professor's opinion creative writing only meant poetry or non-fiction writing lol :/). The prompt I think was about denial or something, i cant quite remember now, but I wrote one about bethyl and my thoughts and daryl's at the time lol. I honestly never thought to post it, but I was rereading it and I'm actually quite proud of it in the end so...here ya go lol. I guess it's still in canon too, though canon atm is just sucky and I don't watch the show anymore because of this but yea. Anyway, hope someone else enjoys its other than me lol :)