Dark Horizon

The hallway hums like failing power Dust floats in fractured light Your shadow stains the kitchen tiles Like it never learned to leave I keep the curtains half-drawn Afraid of what the morning shows A city built from empty windows Watching me alone There’s no explosion No final spark Just systems shutting down Inside my heart Going dark, going dark Holding your name against my heart Mouth full of stone, hands full of air Every direction leads to nowhere Going dark, going dark No benediction, no remark I watched it all just disappear The only sound is going dark Your jacket still smells like winter Cold metal and rain I press my face into the fabric Like pressure could stop the pain The television flickers blue Static crawling through the room Your absence louder than the sirens Bleeding through the gloom No ritual No final word Just quiet tearing through What we were Going dark, going dark Holding your name against my heart Mouth full of stone, hands full of air Every direction leads to nowhere Going dark, going dark No benediction, no remark I watched it all just disappear The only sound is going dark I thought grief would scream But it doesn’t It settles Like dust in the lungs You don’t die loudly You fade And I stay In the dim Still. Going dark, going dark Holding your name against my heart Mouth full of stone, hands full of air Every direction leads to nowhere Going dark, going dark No benediction, no remark I watched it all just disappear The only sound is going dark Going dark… Going dark…