It’s quiet tonight
Too quiet without you
I still leave the light on
Like you’re coming home late
Still check my phone
Knowing nothing will change
Your mug’s in the kitchen
Right where you left it
I tell myself
It doesn’t mean anything
But the silence knows
What I don’t say
It keeps repeating
Your name
I tried to move on
I swear that I tried
But love doesn’t listen
When the heart decides
I still call your name
When the night falls apart
Still feel you here
Everywhere in my heart
I learned how to smile
I learned how to breathe
But loving you
Never really left me
I walk past the places
We used to stay
Nothing looks broken
But it’s not the same
Friends say I’m better
They say I look fine
I nod and agree
Like I’m doing just fine
But they don’t see
When the room goes dark
How your memory
Hits me hard
I don’t cry like before
I don’t beg or pretend
But missing you
Still finds me in the end
I still call your name
When the world slows down
In the quiet spaces
You’re the loudest sound
I learned how to stand
On my own again
But loving you
Wasn’t something that ends
Mm
It stays
It stays
I folded the letters
Put them away
Told myself
“This is the last day”
But every “almost”
Every “what if”
Still feels closer
Than anything new
Maybe love’s not meant
To be erased
Maybe it just changes shape
If letting go
Means losing who I was
Then maybe holding on
Isn’t wrong at all
I still call your name
Not to pull you back
Just to remind my heart
Of what we had
I don’t hate the pain
I don’t fight the truth
Because every part of me
Learned love with you
If someday you’re happy
And someone holds your hand
I hope they see
What I still understand
That you were gentle
Even when you broke me
That loving you
Was never a mistake
I won’t ask for forever
I won’t ask for more
I just needed to say
What my heart couldn’t ignore
One more breath
One more night
Morning comes slowly
Through faded blinds
Another day
Learning how to be fine
I don’t wait by the door
I don’t hope for a sign
But your name still lives
In the back of my mind
Some loves don’t fade
They just grow quiet
Like a song you hum
Without realizing it
I won’t stop living
I promise you that
But loving you
Is part of my past
I still call your name
When the tears don’t fall
When I feel okay
But not whole at all
I learned how to live
With the space you left
But loving you
Is something I accept
I still call your name
Not out loud, but inside
Like a prayer
I don’t need answered tonight
If love means carrying
What once felt true
Then I’ll carry this
Quiet love for you
I don’t need you back
I just needed you known
That you were my love
And I wasn’t alone