There you are. There I am. Two lives That never began. You laugh with them. I look away. Then carry that moment Through another day. I don't want you unhappy. I don't want them gone. So why does my heart Keep holding on? You live in the world. I live in the almost. The almost touch. The almost kiss. The almost life I still can't dismiss. Years move on. The feeling stays. Your name still changes Ordinary days. Maybe I miss you. Maybe I miss The future I imagined That never existed. Would I love you, If you were mine? Or did distance. Make you divine? You live in the world. I live in the almost. A thousand endings I can't undo. Maybe letting go Isn't forgetting. Maybe it's grieving What never came true. You were never mine. But the grief was real. And that's the part I still feel.