The Silence Between Us
The streets still look the same But they no longer pass through us The cafรฉs are still crowded But I donโt recognize the voices There are footsteps crossing nothing Eyes that refuse to meet Two strangers on the same map Afraid they might collide And the city swallows all we were Without a trace left on the ground Itโs the silence between us Scattered through the city streets Between lights and crowded faces Weโve lost our identity And even just a few steps apart Weโre worlds with no connection Two bodies in the same space Holding emptiness in our hands The wind carries fragments Of conversations that are gone And the places where we laughed Now are just directions I walk where we once were home But I donโt feel the warmth Just illuminated facades And memories without color And the sound of the city canโt drown What was left unsaid Itโs the silence between us Scattered through the city streets Between lights and crowded faces Weโve lost our identity And even just a few steps apart Weโre worlds with no connection Two bodies in the same space Holding emptiness in our hands If I saw you on the corner Would I pretend not to see? Or would I stop time completely Just to recognize you again? But the truth is colder Than any kind of loneliness Itโs knowing youโre so close And still canโt hold your hand Itโs the silence between us Louder than the sound of the city Between hurried footsteps And promises left half-made And even side by side, alone Lost inside the crowd Weโre two broken echoes No voiceโฆ no way out
