And Days Go By

The whisper fades, it learns to lie, Still shows up late on sleepless nights. Your shadow stretches, then grows thin, A scar, not fire, beneath my skin. I chased the ghost of who we were, Confused the pain for something pure. But every echo has an end, Even the ones that felt like home. I wore your absence like a truth, Built whole tomorrows out of you. But time is quiet, time is kind, It loosens knots you swore were mine. Now days go by and I still feel, But not the way I used to feel. Your name no longer pulls me under, Just passes through like distant thunder. I stand alone, but not afraid, I breathe again, I’m finally okay. You were a chapter, not the book, A backward glance—I don’t look. Days go by… And so do I.