Fading Outline

Then the whole room disappeared

And only your shape remained

Morning found the curtains closed Dust settling where the fire rose

Nothing moved, but something stayed An empty space that held your shape

The glass was cold beneath my hand The walls forgot what we

had planned I searched the silence for a sound And heard you

in the settling ground

No footsteps No voice No reason No choice You were nowhere You

were gone

So why did everything Still feel like us?

Everything disappeared

But your shape remained

Like light burned into my eyes

Like a permanent stain

Everything disappeared

Every promise, every flame

I was standing there alone

But your shape remained (still there)

(still there) Nothing left to hold

But your shape remained I cleared the table,

changed the sheets Opened every window to the street But absence has

a weight of its own It fills the air,

it follows me home Your outline lived beneath the paint A perfect

ghost I couldn’t name I turned away,

I counted ten Then saw you in the glass again

Maybe memory is a room That rearranges in the dark

Maybe losing what we were

Only taught it where to start

Maybe I don’t miss your touch Maybe I just miss the pain

Because pain was something I could hold When only your shape remained

Still there

In the glass

Still there In the quiet

No face

No name No touch Just shape Everything disappeared

But your shape remained

Like light burned into my eyes Like a permanent stain

Everything disappeared

Every promise, every flame

I was standing there alone

But your shape remained (still there) (still there) Nothing left to hold

But your shape remained

And somewhere underneath the quiet—

Something started beating again