{"id":4518,"date":"2025-09-28T18:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:59:51","slug":"the-vow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/en\/the-vow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Have you come again? Or is this just the night playing with shadows?<br>I no longer count your steps, my love.<br>I am left only with the touch of cold dust<br>And the rustle of your thoughts, frozen in stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 I did not come from heaven or hell, my beloved.<br>I am from the silence that settled between prayer and whisper.<br>Did you call? I heard how your yearning<br>Seeped through to me through the cracks of the grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Called? Oh, if only I still had a voice\u2026<br>Do you remember my laughter? It was light as the wind.<br>Now I am a forgotten chord in an old organ,<br>That no one dares to touch anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 I remember everything.<br>Your hands, now cold, once held the sun itself.<br>Now, only the memory of your whisper<br>Warms the fragment of a heart that has not yet decayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Did we not once make a vow:<br>\u201cEven death is not the end\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 We made it. And we fulfilled it.<br>I have neither lived nor died. I am simply near.<br>Every time the night closes the eyes of the world,<br>I hear how your soul searches for mine in the darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Then stay. And I beg you, do not be silent.<br>Tell me about everything you see up there.<br>Because here\u2026 there is nothing but darkness and memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 I see the flowers we never planted.<br>I see the children who were never meant to be born.<br>I see our life as it was supposed to be\u2026<br>But even this emptiness is not as terrible<br>As leaving you alone again in this mute silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Then do not go. Just sit beside me.<br>Even in death, one can be two.<br>Even here, in the depths of the earth \u2013 we still tremble together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 I will not go.<br>My \u201cforever\u201d began right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 Have you come again? 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