And if you ever wonder where I've gone
I'm somewhere learning how to carry on
For even though your absence feels like home
I'd rather miss you than forget we were once close
I never asked the stars to make you mine,
I only wished our paths would once align.
But some hearts meet only to drift apart,
Leaving their echoes buried in the heart.
I miss the moments that never really belonged to me, and the person I never truly got to keep.
Sometimes, I wish things had turned out differently, not because I regret what happened, but because a part of me still wonders what could have been
The rain kept falling, while we passed the cigarette between our lips and our kisses.
Her smoke found its way into my lungs, and her lips found their way into my lips.
There was something strangely beautiful about sharing one breath, one cigarette, and two lips
But perhaps the cruelest part is watching someone you still hold so dearly exist without the weight of your absence To wonder how they can carry on so effortlessly while you find pieces of them in the
And slowly, you begin to understand that two people can leave the same relationship with entirely different losses. One walks away from what happened; the other remains trapped in everything it could have been
smallest, most meaningless things. How a conversation that once made your days feel lighter can now leave you staring at a screen, searching for a feeling that no longer lives there.
It's strange how someone far away
Can be the best part of your day.
How one small message, one hello,
Can make you feel more than you show.
And I don't know what we are now,
Or if you've ever wondered how
A heart can grow so close to you
Without you knowing that it grew.