The wind arrived in October like an old friend I never asked for
It moved through the empty streets where we once walked hand in hand
I could feel the chill creeping up my spine
Each gust carrying pieces of us scattered across the fallen leaves
I still remember the café on the corner where you would wait for me
Your smile like warm sunlight breaking through November clouds
We talked for hours about nothing and everything
Never knowing that the seasons were counting down our days
The first leaf fell on the day you said goodbye
Your words as cold as the draft slipping through the window crack
I wanted to hold you but my hands were trembling
From the weight of everything we were about to lose
Now autumn returns every year without permission
Reminding me how the world keeps turning without you
The wind whispers your name through the empty corridor
And I pretend I cannot hear it, I pretend I'm strong
Do you still remember the park bench where we made promises
Made believe that love could survive any winter
But time is cruel and seasons change without warning
And what we built together slowly turned to dust
The trees stand bare now like soldiers losing their battle
Branches reaching toward a sky that refuses to answer
I walk these familiar paths alone now
Wondering if somewhere you think of me at all
They say time heals everything they say it fades
But some wounds sink deeper than bone and blood
I carry your absence like a coat too heavy to wear
Yet too precious to discard, too familiar to remove
The wind tonight feels colder than before
It cuts right through the layers I've built around my heart
I stand here watching leaves spiral into darkness
Each one a memory falling, falling, falling away
Once there was warmth in this place you called home
Now the rooms echo with a silence I cannot escape
Your photograph still sits beside my bed
A ghost made permanent by frames and regret
I light a cigarette just to watch the smoke drift
Like all those moments we let slip through our fingers
Neither of us held on tight enough
And now we're strangers wearing each other's shadows
Autumn wind why do you taste so bitter
Is it the leaves decomposing or the tears I've swallowed
Tell me where do broken hearts go to rest
When even the stars have turned their faces away
I used to think love was enough to survive
But I learned that sometimes loving means letting go
You were my autumn and my winter both
The warmth I needed and the cold I had to face
The night deepens and the wind grows louder
It knows all my secrets now, it has seen me weak
It carries away another piece of who I was
And I let it, I let it take everything
Morning will come with its pale indifferent light
It always does, the world keeps spinning forward
But tonight I'll sit here with your ghost beside me
Two shadows mourning what could never last
Goodbye my love, goodbye my autumn dream
The wind is taking what remains of us
I release you now to wherever lost loves go
May your winters be warm, may your springs come soon
Let the cold take what's left of this heart
Let the leaves bury what remains of us
For in the silence after you left
I found the loneliest song I've ever known
The wind fades now into the early hours
And I am alone again with the echo of your voice
The memories will return next October
Like uninvited guests who never learned to leave
Until then I will carry autumn in my chest
A permanent season living inside my ribs
Where your laughter once echoed and your warmth once stayed
Now only the cold wind knows the path you took away