Hollow Drift

I felt it in a fleeting glance, An absence I couldn’t define, A space within the old romance, Lost pieces I’d once called mine. You were there, but slipping fast, A trace retreating from my sight, I reached to hold what couldn’t last, As morning blurred into the night. [Chorus] How did I not notice? The drift, the slow descent, A truth blurred by the quiet, A love that came and went. It lingers in the spaces, Between the words we’d say, The spark now just a shadow, In the dawn’s uncertain gray. Once we blazed through any storm, A fire that seemed too bright to fade, But time can wear even the warm, And leave us cold in what we made. I thought we'd make it past the break, I thought we’d rise to meet the dawn, But now our past feels faint and vague, And half of what we had is gone. [Chorus] How did I not notice? The drift, the slow descent, A truth blurred by the quiet, A love that came and went. It lingers in the stillness, In the hush of last goodbyes, The spark now just a shadow, Beneath wide open skies. [Chorus] How did I not notice? The drift, the slow descent, A truth blurred by the quiet, A love that came and went. It lingers in the stillness, In the hush of last goodbyes, The spark now just a shadow, Beneath wide open skies. In an instant, all’s laid bare, The years we lost, the flaws we missed, The fears we buried in despair, The way we drifted out of bliss. [Chorus] How did I not notice? The drift, the slow descent, A truth blurred by the quiet, A love that came and went. It lingers in the spaces, Between the words we’d say, The spark now just a shadow, In the dawn’s uncertain gray.