Echoes of My Old Name

Caught in the hum of café neon light

Coffee curls in rising steam tonight

Laughter erupts, a sound so precise

Suddenly someone cuts through the spice

That old word spins and my heart combusts

Memory ignites, dissolving the rust

You called me by that childhood name

Lightning to the chest, I’m not the same

Years unravel in a runaway refrain

Sudden jolt—time breaks the frame

I forgot how it danced on someone’s tongue

Like a lost chord where youth was strung

In a second, the future stepped aside

I was a kid in summer’s tide

You called it out and the music swayed

Past and present merge and trade

You called me by that childhood name

Lightning to the chest, I’m not the same

Years unravel in a runaway refrain

Sudden jolt—time breaks the frame

That name tastes of rain on old playground swings

Of laughter that only the memory brings

I catch my breath, hear echoes drawn

Fading and bright, forever gone

You called me by that childhood name

Lightning to the chest, I’m not the same

Years unravel in a runaway refrain

Sudden jolt—time breaks the frameWhispers linger as silence falls

That nickname still answers when memory calls