Does the pain ever recede?

You often come across people telling you that time would heal all your wounds,
It won't hurt after some time.
But does that really happen?
Does the void ever get filled?

How do you replace all who have left you?
Human beings!
Flesh and bones!
Differ fragrances and touches!
Pictures and memories!
Places you visited!
Future you planned!

With every passing day the pain doesn't go away,
Nowhere does it leave you.
It stays there,
Either peeping through the window every other moment,
Or it hides under the rug.

The pain that they left you?
Or the pain that they chose to leave?
But you experience them both,
And never at ease!

The one who understood you,
The one who fathered you,
The one who told you several stories,
Only for all of them
To vanish in the same!

The pain never recedes
because you never get over
the fact that they chose,
not you
but rather to leave you.