[soft piano, faint hospital monitor beeps, rain tapping on a window] "You were so small when they placed you in my arms… Pink cheeks, trembling lips — like the world had already whispered its first secret to you. I remember thinking, How can something so tiny hold so much light? And yet… how can something so bright make me feel so scared?" "I looked at you, and I saw everything I ever wanted — and everything I was afraid to lose. You didn’t cry much that night. You just stared up at me, like you already knew I’d break your heart one day, without meaning to. And maybe I did. Maybe we both did." "Love is a strange thing, Sky. It lifts you, but it burns on the way down. And hate… hate’s just the ashes of love that stayed too long." "So when you sing about the things I couldn’t say, and the people I couldn’t be — remember, baby… I loved you first. And sometimes, I think that’s why it hurts so much." [soft exhale — rain fades, piano lingers]
