“Slow Light (After You Stayed)”

“Slow Light (After You Stayed)” You didn’t wake me.... you just stayed where you were Like the night hadn’t finished its say Light came in but it moved around you first Like it knew not to get in the way Your hand was resting like it already knew There was nowhere else it should be Not asking nothing—just moving me through Something quiet I couldn’t unsee We don’t talk about what it was We just let it keep happening You got me caught in the slow of it now Where the air don’t come back the same Every second stretching out somehow In the weight of the way you stay Is it comfort, is it something I need Is it more than I’m letting it be All I know is I keep leaning in Every time you breathe into me You don’t rush it, you let it unfold Like you trust what it’s gonna become There’s a way that you move when you hold Like you’re not trying to outrun And the small one curled into the bed Like she knows this is where we belong There’s a rhythm in what’s left unsaid Like we’ve both been here all along You don’t ask me to explain... You just stay till I don’t need to You got me caught in the slow of it now Where the edge don’t feel like a fall Every breath got a deeper pull somehow Like I don’t have to fight it at all Is it healing or something I chose Is it yours or just something I’m in All I know is I keep letting go Every time you pull me in There’s a moment where I almost speak Like I’m trying to name what this is But you move just enough and it breaks And I don’t even care what it is Every line I was holding before Starts to blur in the way that you stay And I don’t feel the need to be sure I just don’t wanna look away Stay right there… don’t move too fast… Let it sit where it’s at… If I’m shaking, it’s not from the past… It’s just everything we have You got me caught in the slow of it now Where the past don’t reach this far in Every touch laying something down I don’t feel like picking back up again Is it love or the way that it lands When you don’t try to make it pretend All I know is I’m here where I am… And I don’t wanna come back again Now the light sits soft in the room… Like it knows it can stay… And I don’t know if I’m holding you… Or just something you gave…