In the Space Where You Should Be (SUNO SKETCH : 2026 48 : TAKE 18)

[Invocation – cold open] In the space between the door and the wall In the pause after saying nothing at all By the edge of the bed with the light turned low Under the sound of the clock moving slow There is a place Where a name should have been --- [Descent Verse A] Across from my chair, at the end of the day Between what I wanted and what slipped away With my hand on the glass of a window at night Through the blur of the street and the passing headlights I waited for someone I never could meet --- [Refrain – unresolved] You were supposed to be here Somewhere in reach Out of the silence But never in speech --- [Descent Verse B – widening scope] Among all the faces on screens and in lines Within all the numbers and dates and designs Between all the births and the years that went by Under the weight of a quietly shrinking sky We learned how to live With a hole in the count --- [Refrain – altered] You were supposed to be here Near, not erased Inside the future That never took place --- [Spiral Bridge – dark turn] Before the first letter Before the first sound Without a goodbye Without being found Between choice and consent Before love could decide You were gone from the story Before either side Now I stand in the crowd At the age we should meet With my life half-assembled And no one complete --- [Refrain – degraded] You were supposed to be here --- [Coda – exit without resolution] In the years after youth In the rooms still unfilled By the dreams never spoken And the vows never willed I walk with the love I was ready to give Toward the person Who never got to live