Fading Footsteps

(mmmmm-mm-mm) Coat hooks on the hallway wall

Still hanging where your jackets fell

I try to recall the morning noise The breakfast plates,

the laughing boys Before you vanished in the silent chill

I twirl across the darkened wood

Pretending someone watches like they should

Spinning with the ghost of our old home

Happy laughter turning into stone You never came back down the lane

And I dance alone through all the pain

I keep the porch light burning

low

In case you remember the way to go

Chairs pulled out around the square I talk as if my family's

there

Trying to remember how the hearth felt warm

I twirl across the darkened wood

Pretending someone watches like they should

Spinning with the ghost of our old home

Happy laughter turning into stone

You never came back down the lane

And I dance alone through all the pain

Did you forget the road to me?

Or did you find where you were meant to be?

I hold the memory of your hands Slipping away like ocean sands (ahhh-ahhh)

The room grows cold,

the music dies I close my heavy,

tired eyes

Still waiting by the open door