I pause the film where you first laughed
The kind that cracked my world in half
The frame’s a little blurred with time
But you still hold the perfect line
I replay that sound again
Like sunlight sliding through the rain
You left it here, just out of view
But I still stop the world for you
Your voice is tucked between the scene
Where joy was quiet, soft, and clean
I trace the air, the couch, the cue
Where you once turned and said that too
Now every silence plays your part
The loudest echo in my heart