What Used to Be:
Stay; it was once such a powerful word.
It had begun to lose its meaning for all things other then a command.
A statement from a superior, an officer on the field of battle.
It had begun only to be word that told you to halt, wait, dig in.
It lost its meaning as a word for connection.
A word that used to pull someone closer to you and keep them there.
A word that let you create and keep the connections that used to mean so much, but not now.
After so much blood and death, it is just a word.
Devoid of any deeper truth.
Lacking any of the feelings that the speaker had long since forfeited to the deep snow and blood stains.
It is not surprising he can't find the right ones to stop you from walking away.