Gone

Going from a place that was full of love and life, to rooms that echo, I craved for that company again. But it wasn't coming back. Life had shifted and there was no return. 

Of course I miss them. I miss each and every one of them. I miss the chatter around the dinner table. I miss the togetherness of everyone at the end of the day. I wish I had stopped a little, and savoured the moment. I wish I could have known back then, that this was going to end and it will never come back. I would have hugged them a little harder. Looked at them a little longer. Taken them in. Absorbed the moment. And I would have said "Please stay."