Fractured Cadence

Someone left the window open

Rain came halfway through the room

Your coffee's cold beside the speaker Morning came a little too soon

The floorboards shake beneath the traffic A siren bends into the chord

Nothing here is standing still now

Not the table

Not the door

I thought we'd know

When something changed

I thought there'd be

A cleaner break

But the room keeps moving Even when we don't The walls keep

breathing The wires still hum I thought the world would notice I

thought something would stop

But the room keeps moving The room keeps moving on

Someone laughs out in the hallway

Someone drags a chair upstairs

The city doesn't need permission

To continue while we're scared

Your shadow crosses through the kitchen Then disappears behind the light

For a second I can almost see you For a second

It's alright

No final word

No perfect scene Just everything

Still happening

Count the glasses

Count the chairs

Count the things

That don't know we're not there

Count the seconds

Miss the one

Start again

MOVE

MOVE

MOVE Even when the body says no MOVE MOVE MOVE

Even when there's nowhere to go

The room keeps moving

So maybe I can too

The walls keep breathing

I hear them coming through

I don't need the world to notice

I don't need it to stop

Let the room keep moving

Let it move me on

The window's still open.

Leave it.