Penumbra (Lover’s Remnant)

I still feel you in the dust, Your outline pressed into the dark. Every silence bends your name, Every shadow wears your mark. The stars are bruised but breathing slow, They hum the tune we used to know. I dance with air and call it you, A body made of memory’s hue. You’re not gone you’ve just turned thin, A ripple under my porcelain skin. Penumbra, love’s last scent, A half-light where the heart once went. I move through echoes, soft and slow, With all the ghosts I used to know. My hands still glow with what you gave, Like candle smoke that learned to stay. The world forgot its rhythm’s song, But my pulse still beats where you belong. The dark is kind now. It remembers how we burned. It whispers your name like scripture, And I answer, Still. Penumbra, kiss me faint, Let your absence make me saint. Half in life, half in you, That’s the only truth I knew. You were never gone. You just became light I couldn’t see.