You leave the lamp on in the other room like you’re saving a place for the night to sit The floorboards settle into their own tune and neither of us adds a thing to it The clock keeps time but it don’t keep score of all the little wars we never chose Funny how the things worth fighting for are usually the things nobody knows It’s the quiet between us that’s been carrying the weight Not the words that made the headlines or the moments we celebrate Just a hand finding a shoulder like it always knew the way There’s a whole life in the spaces where nothing needed saying The years don’t leave in a straight line they wander off and circle back around Sometimes I hear an older version of us hidden underneath the sound Still laughing at a joke we never finished still learning how to let the small things pass Turns out forever isn’t built from promises it’s built from showing up and making them last It’s the quiet between us that’s been carrying the weight Not the plans we drew in daylight or the dreams that had a date Just a glance across a crowded room that cuts through all the noise There’s a whole world in the spaces where we never raised our voice Some nights all the stars couldn’t add a thing To the way your footsteps made the hallway sing I spent half my lifetime looking for a sign Never saw it waiting in your hand finding mine It’s the quiet between us never asking to be seen Growing like the spaces in between the evergreen Every little heartbeat every borrowed dawn You leave the lamp beside you… and somehow the dark is gone.
