Echoes in a Quiet Heart

Title: after the glow

same street, different night

lights don’t hit the same this time

your name still on my phone

but I don’t pick it up anymore

we were easy, we were quick

now it’s quiet where you sit

every corner feels off-key

like the song cut out on me

I don’t say it, but it shows

in the spaces you don’t go

got that feeling, but it’s fading

used to hear it when you’d say my name, and

now the city just repeats

everything you were to me

I don’t chase it, I don’t fight it

just let it flicker, don’t rewind it

some things don’t restart

just echoes in a quiet heart

late rides, empty seat

I still turn like you’re with me

little habits don’t just end

they stay longer than we did

I don’t need to place the blame

we both changed in quiet ways

nothing brok