Our story opened softly like a window touched by dawn
yet the ending stood too close unkindly waiting on the side
I felt you leaving long before your shadow truly gone
a quiet trembling heartbeat drifting farther with the tide
If only love had reached your fear before the sorrow grew
we might’ve held the fragile threads that time began to fray
I’d gather every fallen hope and place them back in you
restoring all the gentle things the darkness stole away
Sometimes I dream a softer world untouched by sudden ends
where every step we took aligned with what our souls believed
In that universe we learn to stay instead of just pretend
and you would never walk away with tenderness unweaved
If life allows a second chance beneath a different sky
I’d find you at the moment tears are not yet in your eyes
And love would start a little earlier than goodbye—
long before the quiet
where our final aching lies