A/N: I was trying to come up with a less morbid summary but... I'm afraid it is quite simply this exactly: dead James talking to Elizabeth...

"-------" = double space (because the site wouldn't let me have a regular double space lol)

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In Silence

In the dark stillness

I grieve,

Remembering the times when I could feel / was

Me.

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No right paths among the curtains of darkness

Heavy like each day's sunset.

A chain of days lost – without you.

A pain – tangible, desired - of your ever-absence.

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The mist is clear now,

And there is no distance.

Only the accidental sanctity of temporary resistance.

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I am free not to miss you,

But my ghost's shadow refuses

To let go of

Your smile (and)

Of confusion.

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I doubt the hell in heaven. It hurts so enough. Is there a way to reach you? To call you?

How-

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Why did I ever let go

Of the world - ?

That vanishing collection of chances

To let go;

Of everything, of everyone

I miss most

The faintest recollections

In which I hope- have faith- believe- love!-

For

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Redemption

Is absent, replaced

By(e)

(Not good, could've never-)

Your words

Granting

Comprehension

?

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On the other side of light it's still so dark,

I wish I could ask you to bring the moon and the sun

Here - There -

But you have your own stars to shoot, your own darkness to drape over

(Over!)

You.

I wish-

I wish...

Everything stills

Slowly.

And I can't hold onto

The words

Any longer.

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In silence

I'm losing all the memories of you.

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Out of dreams,

Death has at last conjured up

This truth.