Another midnight, another glowing screen Your name appears before I think to breathe I trace the letters then erase the thought Some roads feel kinder when they're left alone A hundred little things still look like us A passing bus, a café, evening skies I smile before remembering why Some habits take their time to say goodbye Maybe missing you was never meant To pull me back to where we ended Maybe love grows softer in the dark When I stop reaching for your heart I could call your name into the blue Wonder if it still belongs to you But some feelings shine the brightest When they're never asked to stay So I'll let the silence keep its shape Like the tide that never begs the waves Not every story needs another page To mean everything I still hear you in familiar songs Like summer hiding underneath the rain For a moment, everything feels close Then the feeling floats away again Every question finds its quiet place Every memory learns a different face I don't need the ending rewritten To believe we were real If your shadow finds me now and then I'll greet it like an old friend passing by I won't ask it why it couldn't stay Or wish to turn back time The stars still shine where we once stood But neither of us calls them home Maybe that's how love says goodbye Without asking to return I begin mourning someone who is still there There is a kind of grief reserved for people Who are still alive but have become unreachable This is sad and tragic but it's true Someone I once knew has become a stranger
