"I don’t remember you but you remember me, and it’s getting louder. I wake up with ink on my fingers, words I swear I never wrote, letters pressed against my ribs like they’re hiding in my throat. I hear you in the quiet, in the spaces between breath, calling from a place below where love outlived death. Every street feels borrowed and every night feels known, like I’ve walked this path before but never alone. Why do I know your sorrow like it’s stitched into my skin, why does your endless mourning feel like something I’ve been in? Memories of the crypt whisper through my veins, your voice inside my bloodstream calling out my name. I feel your centuries, your fury and your grief, a love you cast in shadow still reaching out for me. I see flashes in the candlelight, stone beneath my hands, a ring I used to wear, a life I couldn’t stand. They took me from your arms, pulled me toward the sun, left you in the darkness with what you had become. And you did not bury me in light, you buried me in spell, wove my name in midnight and cast it down to hell. So every time I’m reborn your sorrow finds my soul, a thread pulled through the ages making broken lovers whole. Memories of the crypt carved into my bones, your unsent confessions leading me back home. I feel your endless hunger, your hatred dressed as pain, but underneath the monster you still whisper my name. I’m seeing it now, the coffin, the stone, the cold air below. You waited, all this time you waited. You thought I’d fear you, you thought I’d run, but I feel your loneliness like it’s my own. You loved me, even when it ruined you. I forgive the darkness, I forgive the rage, you were never evil, you were trapped in an age. Powerless to save me, powerless to die, so you carved our story into the underside of time. Memories of the crypt, now I understand, the spell you cast in shadow was never to command. It was only ever longing, it was only ever love, a promise written under earth not buried deep enough. Memories of the crypt, I’m standing at your door, you were never just a monster, you were mine before. I’m not afraid, open your eyes, you found me again."
