never there at all

n—n—n—never… never… th—there… th—th—there… a—a—at… a—a—all… n-never… n—never there… never… there at all… still… still I stood… no sound… no should… faint trace… f—faint… of you… hands… gone cold… ghost of… something old… and you were… never… n-never there at all… hush… hush the air… silence… settles there… still… I stare… through glass… slip… I slipped away… a whisper lost… in yesterday… never… n-n—never… there… never there at all… never… never… th-th-there at a—a—all… n—n-never… there… never… there… at… all… never there… never there at all… (at… all… at… all… n—n—never…) pale light… won’t hold… every truth… turned cold… ache… soft ache… grace undone… thought… maybe… you’d come… but silence… said it all… you were… never… never there at all…