We counted days
We crossed off months
Spoke in alarms and airport tongues
Your morning light
My midnight screen
Two coffee cups
The same old dream
We held our phones like lifelines tight
Chased every glitch
Each borrowed night
You traced a heart across the glass
I tried to catch it as it passed
Distance killed us
Slowly and quiet
Like a room that nobody cries in
Love wasn’t enough to cross the riot
Of miles and nights and silent tired
We loved too hard
Then we retired
We loved too hard
Then we retired
The fights got sharp from all that space
Small little things took up too much place
“I’m just exhausted” turned into walls
Your sleepy voice stopped making calls
Your “I miss you” lost its taste
Said out of habit
Out of faith
We ran out of ways to say “hold on”
Until “forever” sounded wrong
Distance killed us
Slowly and quiet
Like a room that nobody cries in
Love wasn’t enough to cross the riot
Of miles and nights and silent tired
We loved too hard
Then we retired
We loved too hard
Then we retired
Maybe in some closer life
We share a table
Share a sky
But in this one we said goodbye
With screens that never learned to cry
Distance killed us
Slowly and quiet
Like a room that nobody cries in
Love wasn’t enough to cross the riot
Of miles and nights and silent tired
We loved too hard
Then we retired
We loved too hard
Then we retired