Flicker After Midnight

You still taste like midnight on my lips

We were heat on the back seat windows Hands learning names they

could barely hold You said stay till the sky turned silver I

let my whole heart come out too bold The room spun slow

like a drink half finished Your shirt on my skin,

your laugh in my hair I thought that meant there was something

lasting I thought the morning would find you there

Coffee going cold on the table Sun across your sleeping eyes

I told you things I never tell anyone Like love could keep

the daylight kind Now it's just the silence after I said too

much A blue bed sheet and an untouched cup I gave you

the keys to the rooms in me You left with the dawn

and the missing piece Now my phone stays still and my chest

lights up Every time the dark comes back on

us One wild night,

one honest morning love Then nothing but the silence after I said

too

much I read our night like a promise written In fog on

glass that was bound to fade Your side went cold by the

second hour By noon your name felt far away I sent a

line then another after Too many truths in a shaking thumb Watched

my words fall flat in the quiet Like little stones where no

waves would come Maybe I opened every window Maybe I let all

the weather in

But for a moment your arms felt honest And I would do

it all again Now it's just the silence after

I said

too much A blue bed sheet and an untouched cup I gave

you the keys to the rooms in me You left

with the dawn and the missing piece Now my phone stays still

and my chest lights

up Every time the dark comes back on us One wild night,

one honest morning love Then nothing but the silence after I said

too much Mm,

silence after I said too much Too much,

too

much