Where Your Shape Should Be

Where you should have been The air still moved I reached again

My hand passed through (ahhhh) Your outline stayed against the wall A

trace of heat, then none at all

The room repeated every sound But changed your voice each time around

I saw you standing in the glass I turned—you vanished when I

asked The light bent where your body stood Like even absence understood

One second near

One second gone

I keep arriving After you’ve moved on

There’s nothing where your shape should be But the empty keeps reaching

for me

Every reflection almost makes you real Every shadow

remembers how you feel There’s nothing where your shape should be Still,

something there is watching me

If you’re only a memory Why do you keep remembering me?

Where your shape should be Where your shape should be There’s nothing

there— But it won’t let me leave

Your footsteps crossed the ceiling twice Your breath appeared against the ice

A distant melody began

Then stopped when I raised my hand I followed fragments through the

door Into a room without a floor You waited on the other

side With all the distance in your eyes

One second near

One second gone

I keep arriving

After you’ve moved on

Did becoming something different Make me impossible to find?

Did I leave you in the doorway When I crossed the other

side?

Are you trapped inside the distance?

Am I dreaming through the walls?

Or did I become the apparition Still believing you were lost?

Show your face Say my name Break the glass Cross the frame

Give me proof Give me pain Anything But empty space

There’s nothing where your shape should be So I tear through everything

between Every reflection fractures into light Every shadow opens up its eyes

There’s nothing where your shape should be

Then your voice moves through the walls to me Not a ghost

and not a memory— Something changed in how I see

You didn't lose me You changed the way

You see me (shhh)

One drop of rain

Falls inside the room