Woke beneath a still
Unspeaking sky
Where shadows
Fold into themselves
Like forgotten names
There was a time when words
Like rivers, ran
But I declined
The world a breathless song
Now, the air is thin
And silence speaks in riddles
The years scatter
Like dust across a field
Where nothing blooms
Except the faintest ache
And I thought I could hold on
But time is a thief in disguise
And slips away
Like mist on a winter morning
I will dissolve into the dawn
Not lost, but fading
Like a sigh
That never reaches the shore
Remembering the words
To once speak freely
I will rise again
But not as I was before
I will dissolve into the dawn
A breath, a shadow
A quiet rebirth
I trace the echoes
Of my voice in empty rooms
The silence growing
In the spaces between us
I was once on fire
Reckless, wild
Now only ash remains
Scattered on the wind
Yet I cannot mourn
What has already slipped away
For there is beauty in the breaking
In the letting go
Of what we thought we needed
And in the dark
I've learned to just hold on
Yet its absence hums
Like the softest chord
I will dissolve into the dawn
Not lost, but fading
Like a sigh
That never reaches the shore
Remembering the words
To once speak freely
I will rise again
But not as I was before
I will dissolve into the dawn
A breath, a shadow, a quiet rebirth