The rain stops by the memory’s window pane
Your shadow still leans upon my right side
The warm latte slowly chills certain vows we made
The dessert we once shared expired yesterday
Unsent ties still trapped inside my phone
The blinking cursor feels like a reproach
How could we fill our embracing nights with quarrels back then
Now even a greeting trembles with unease
We once loved—the thought alone aches
Like a returned ring left lonely in its drawer
The sweetness of memory tangles tight with grief
Turning into a burning longing in my stomach
We once burned—now nothing left but cold
Like a dying sunset struggling into the dark
You say forgetting is the cure but I take it as a lie
Diagnosing myself again at every early hour
The movie stub has faded to white
Like our story with no ending in sight
The sofa where you always sat—time slowly fills its space
But can never fill the warmth left in my chest
The weather forecast says snow in your city
My scarf still holds last year’s story
That red scarf you knitted—I never dare to touch
It’s like a wound that heals then splits apart
We once loved—the thought alone aches
Like a returned ring left lonely in its drawer
The sweetness of memory tangles tight with grief
Turning into a burning longing in my stomach
We once burned—now nothing left but cold
Like a dying sunset struggling into the dark
You say forgetting is the cure but I take it as a lie
Diagnosing myself again at every early hour
If back then I had laid my pride down lower
If tears could be exchanged for tickets to meet you
Could we now be chatting with smiles instead of
Guessing the privacy settings on your moments feed
We once loved—the thought alone makes me choke
Even my keyboard still remembers your full name
The sweetness and grief have long fused into my bones
I’m still here picking up the shattered pieces of “goodnight”