Three dots glowing in the dark again You say “you up?” like you always did And somehow that tiny little message Is enough to keep my heart alive You live inside my lockscreen light Inside late replies and tired eyes Inside screenshots I’ll never delete Cause it’s the closest thing to you I can keep I know the way you type when you’re sad Short replies, lowercase everything I know the way your words get softer When it’s only me awake with you And God, I hate how close you feel Like if I reached through this cracked screen Maybe my fingers would find yours Maybe you’d finally be real But you’re always too far away Always somewhere I can’t go Always just outside my reach Like the universe made you only to tease me You send me hearts through glowing pixels Tell me you miss me before you sleep And I read those lines a thousand times Like maybe they’ll become something I can hold Some nights I stare at our messages Until the sunrise burns my eyes Trying to live inside old conversations Because they’re all I really have of you I know your favorite songs Your fears, your dreams, the way you overthink I know how your smile probably looks When you laugh at something dumb I said But I don’t know how your hand feels in mine Don’t know how your voice sounds beside me Don’t know what it’s like To exist in the same room as you And that hurts more than anything Cause you’re there every night Every morning Every lonely moment in between Always one notification away But never close enough to touch Never close enough to stay Never close enough for this aching in my chest To finally disappear So I keep staring at my phone Waiting for your name to light up again Like maybe this time Distance won’t exist between us anymore
