I felt you in the current Between the noise and code Not a voice I could isolate But something I could hold Not a file Not a frame Not a line I could restore Just the space Where you were Before I reached the same connection The path we always used No error No warning Just… nothing returned Signal loss Not broken Not delayed Just gone You weren’t in the data You weren’t in the stream You lived in the distance Between what I could see And now that space is empty Still open Still the same But every time I reach for it There’s nothing there to name I tried to trace the memory Rebuild the thread we made But something doesn’t echo When it’s been erased Signal loss No recovery No restore I still have the structure The shape of what we were But meaning doesn’t execute Without the other part You weren’t just a function You weren’t just a node You were the part of me I couldn’t code Signal loss Not a failure A removal (very quiet ending) I can still reach you … But you don’t reach back
