Don't Disappear

I watched the color leave the glass While you were still beside me Nothing ended in that room Nothing asked to be remembered Yet I felt the ending start I wanted one perfect second Something time could not rearrange So I held my breath around it Like silence could make a shelter Like stillness could make it stay Don't disappear while you're still here Don't disappear while you're still here I know the mind makes copies Every time it tells a story One detail becomes another One silence finds a different shape Until the truth feels borrowed Still, I remember your warmth Better than I remember why I remember how the room felt When everything was ordinary Before ordinary became gone Let me lose you honestly Not as a picture I keep perfect Not as a story I repeat Until I cannot tell what's true If something fades inside me Let it fade without erasing us I thought forgetting was betrayal Now I fear remembering can be I keep touching the same outline And wondering what I changed Maybe nothing stays untouched Maybe that is why it matters The moment does not owe me permanence And I cannot make it mine By refusing to let it change Let me lose you honestly Not as a picture I keep perfect Not as a story I repeat Until I cannot tell what's true If something fades inside me Let it fade without erasing us Don't disappear while you're still here Don't disappear while you're still here