Petals in the basin, drifting out of phase Your reflection trembling in the shallow gray I traced your name in ripples, watched it rearrange Every quiet movement pulling me away You spoke in undertow, I learned to sink Every word a weight beneath my skin I called it love the moment I went under Held my breath and let the dark begin There’s a silence where your light should be Still I reach like you are reaching back for me Every warning sings in minor key But I dissolve in what I cannot see I’m drowning in your petals Soft as they pull me down Every color turns to shadow When you’re not around I gave you all my oxygen You never made a sound Now I bloom beneath the pressure Just to keep you around Your absence blooms in violent shades A garden fed by my decay I water ghosts that wear your face And beg them silently to stay Every fracture feels like grace If it means I still can feel your shape Even emptiness has weight When it’s you I try to recreate I’m drowning in your petals Sweet as they drag me down Every whisper turns to thunder When you’re not around I gave you all my oxygen You never made a sound Now I bloom beneath the pressure Just to keep you around If I disappear in you Would that make it real? If I carve you into truth Would I finally heal? I let the water take my lungs Turn devotion into ruin If loving you is what I’ve done Then let me be consumed I’m drowning in your petals No surface to be found Every moment pulls me deeper Further from the ground I gave you all my oxygen I let you pull me down Now I bloom beneath the pressure Buried where you’re not Petals in the silence, resting where they fell No one left to tell me I should save myself I became the water, I became the well Every trace of you is all that I inhale
