I learned you in fragments In passing light In the way you moved Like you didn’t belong to the night You never stayed long Never close enough to hold But I mapped your silence Like a story I was told Not mine to enter Not mine to claim Just something I carried Without a name You didn’t see me That was the point I stayed where I wouldn’t change you You were already Too much like a storm Too much like something The world would try to reform I wouldn’t do that Not to you So I stood back And I let you move Through every fracture Through every fight Through every version You tried to get right And I watched Not to take Not to save Just to make sure You weren’t alone Even when you thought you were You would have hated that The idea of it So I never said a word But I was there In the space Between your worst decisions And what they almost became In the moments You almost broke But didn’t I stayed quiet You deserve something That doesn’t need to be earned Something that doesn’t bend you To make it return I won’t reach I won’t pull I won’t make you smaller To make this full If you ever turn If you ever see me It won’t be because I forced it It will be because You chose And if you don’t That’s alright I didn’t stay For an ending I stayed Because you were worth Being seen Even from a distance
