Still Matter (Remix)

I stay where your silence leans, like it might say my name. I don’t ask for forever, I don’t need the frame. You move through the room like habit, I fit between your days. Not the reason you wake up, just the reason you don’t break. I could leave, I know I could, but something pulls me slow. I don’t need to be the center, I just need to know. I don’t need to be your answer, I don’t need to be your light. Just tell me I still matter when the room goes quiet at night. I don’t need you to save me, I don’t need dramatic scars. Just tell me I still matter, even if I’m not your star. I learn the shape of waiting, I wear it like a skin. I’m not asking for your promise, just somewhere I fit in. You say my name like routine, not love, not goodbye. And I hold onto that moment like it might be mine. I could harden, I could run, make this easy, make it clean. But I stay inside the question of what you mean. I don’t need to be your answer, I don’t need to be your light. Just tell me I still matter when the room goes quiet at night. I don’t need you to save me, I don’t need dramatic scars. Just tell me I still matter, even if I’m not your star. (breathy / almost spoken) If I disappear tomorrow, would you feel the space I leave? Not the pain, not the memory— just the quiet missing me. I don’t need to be your answer, I don’t need to be your sign. Just tell me I still matter somewhere in your life. I don’t need to be chosen, I don’t need to be loud. Just tell me I still matter— say it soft, say it now. I stay where your silence bends, still hoping it’s my name.