There’s a pressure in my ribs where your memory settled in A quiet, constant dragging that rewrites how I breathe I trace the hollow spaces where your laughter used to spin And feel the missing moments pulling downward underneath My spine is bent with stories I was never meant to hold The cold you left behind seeps deeper into bone Your absence threads my heartbeat through a loom of fading gold And every woven second feels heavier alone This body keeps the score in every tremor, every sigh No matter how I stand, the weight keeps shifting me off-line The quiet hits the hardest when I’m too tired to ask why And gravity remembers even what I’d leave behind You’re the weight I carry even when I try to rise A shadow stitched inside me that no daylight can disguise You linger in the spaces where my strength begins to slide A tether on my pulse that time has never untied Some days I move like mountains, slow and aching toward the sun Other days I’m sinking through the floorboards of my chest Your echo turns my mornings into battles never won And every step reminds me what my body can’t forget My shoulders hold the remnants of a future cracked in two A timeline split and bleeding where your silhouette once stood I learned to walk in shadows shaped exactly like you do And still the weight remains, unchanged, misunderstood This body keeps the score in every tremor, every sigh No matter how I stand, the weight keeps shifting me off-line The quiet hits the hardest when I’m too tired to ask why And gravity remembers even what I’d leave behind You’re the weight I carry even when I try to rise A shadow stitched inside me that no daylight can disguise You linger in the spaces where my strength begins to slide A tether on my pulse that time has never untied Some losses settle in the marrow. Some crawl beneath the skin. Some become the architecture of the life that’s left behind. I try to lift the parts of me that hardened when you vanished but this body, this heart, this gravity You’re the weight I carry even when I try to rise A shadow stitched inside me that no daylight can disguise You linger in the spaces where my strength begins to slide A tether on my pulse that time has never untied
