Empty Spaces

Verse 1 Woke beneath a ceiling of quiet gray Sun drifts in, indifferent, then slips away Hours fold like paper I don’t read Thoughts wander in corridors with no doors to heed Fingers scroll through echoes of light Conversations pass, hollow and polite I answer, but the words are ghosts I stand still while life moves, almost Pre-Chorus I don’t reach. I don’t fall. Just a shadow moving down the hall Chorus Not broken, not whole A vessel adrift with no role No fire loud enough to call it pain No hope strong enough to wake the brain I am here. Barely. Faintly. I am here. Verse 2 Dreams dissolve before I remember their names “Someday” drifts past, a candle with no flame Friends speak in colors I cannot feel Laughter is a wind that I watch but never steal Pre-Chorus Time spills line by line Nothing clings, nothing finds Chorus Not broken, not whole A vessel adrift with no role No fire loud enough to call it pain No hope strong enough to wake the brain I am here. Barely. Faintly. I am here. Bridge If this is peace, it is smoke through fingers If this is living, it lingers No rescue, no truth, no proof Just the quiet, the fading, the loose Outro Tomorrow waits in the same dim light Thoughts like paper boats on a river of night Purpose may come, may not I am here, I drift, I do not plot