Silent Horizons

I kept the room the way you left it

Like silence could explain

Your name still lives in little corners

On coffee cups and window glass

I wear a steady face for strangers

Then fall apart when they all pass

I thought time would turn the key now

I thought night would make it fade

But every small and ordinary moment Brings me back to where you

stayed And I can feel it rushing under

Every word I never said

Something in me leans toward losing

Something in me wants you yet

If you walk back through my door tonight I would break like

dawn into the sky

All the hurt and all the heavy blue Would turn to light

the second I saw you But you are gone and I am

still right here Holding on to what will not reappear So I

sing to the space you moved through Like somehow it could carry

me to you

Now the streetlights catch the rainfall

And every drop becomes your shape

I keep making peace in pieces Then watching all of it escape

Friends say let the morning help me

Let the days do what they do But healing has a slower

rhythm When the heart still runs to you And I can feel

the ceiling lifting

Like the truth is closing in I was strong until I heard

your memory Move beneath my skin

If you walk back through my door tonight

I would break like dawn into the sky All the hurt and

all the heavy blue Would turn to light the second I saw

you But you are gone and I am still right

here Holding

on to what will not reappear

So I sing to

the space you moved through Like somehow it could carry me to

you Maybe love does not leave cleanly Maybe it stays in the

seams Maybe I will learn to hold this

ache Without undoing at the dream

I leave the lamp on by the hallway I let the last

note bloom

And in the quiet after midnight

I make a little

room