Your name still lingers in my phone
Unread messages, a quiet tone
I trace the past in lowercase
You left without a single trace
I tried to fold the memories neat
But they unravel in my sleep
Like shadows dancing on a wall
You were never here at all
We faded, not in fire but in hush
Soft like petals, lost in dust
I didn’t cry, I didn’t scream
But I keep waking from that dream
Where we’re still us, still whole, still right
In that version sealed in night
I whisper into the stillness just because…
We faded between us
The mirror holds a softer glare
Since you’re not standing over there
I wear the silence like perfume
A trace of something I once knew
I speak your name into the rain
Just to hear it fall again
Like trying to hold light in my hands
You slipped away like shifting sand
We faded, not in storms but in breeze
No final words, no crashing seas
Just the slow, unraveling tide
Of everything we used to hide
I look for you in quiet light
But you’re somewhere out of sight
Still I ache, as if love ever was…
Before we faded between us
You didn’t break me, not aloud
But I wear you like a cloud
Floating where I cannot land
Still reaching for your phantom hand
We faded, like ink left in the sun
Like all the things we left undone
And though I’m learning not to chase
Some part of me still holds your place
So if you hear this aching hush
Know we never lost from rush
We just faded…
Between us