When You’re Gone,

Fayth Ong
2 min readNov 4, 2021

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I love you. I’m happy you’re here. Please stay.

Photo by Christopher Ott on Unsplash

Written last October 16, 2019

Hi. I see you. I hear you. And in case you need to hear this:

I love you.

A lot of people love you.

Please don’t go.

When you’re gone, a lot of people will get their hearts broken. You will become a void in their hearts, impossible to fill.

When you’re gone, they will never say, “good riddance” with a cruel grin, they will be having what-ifs and I should haves.

What if he didn’t die?
What if she was meant for something more?
I should’ve done something.
I should’ve known something was bothering her.
I could have stopped him.
I could have saved her.

They wouldn’t be worried about how they would accomplish the unfinished group project. They wouldn’t be anxious about how they would finish that thesis. They will be too crushed, wondering how on earth they would survive, when the next day your usual seat in the dining table is now empty, how during class, someone in front of them would lean on their seat, excited because of their favorite subject.

When you’re gone, you won’t be hard to replace. It will be impossible.

A lot of people love you. A lot of people will love you. Don’t ever forget that.

So please. Stay.

It gets better. You’ll get better.

I love you. I’m happy you’re here. Keep going.

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Fayth Ong
Fayth Ong

Written by Fayth Ong

26 || Christian || Filipino-Chinese Teach. Write. Move. Explore. Your sun-kissed accident-prone creative curly daredevil.

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