All You Had to Do Was Stay

All You Had to Do Was Stay is the 'you only had to stay' grievance. Yearning, stunned at being let go.

I know this: not a hard ask, you didn't even manage that. It doesn't shout, just repeats 'stay' — like a soft cry for everyone easily dropped.

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