Lyric

There was a place left open

Beside the afternoon light

I brought a mouth full of weather

And folded it out of sight

No one asked

So nothing came

The room kept every almost

Every word I turned away

They did not leave my body

They only learned to stay

I sat across from mercy

With my hands under the table

I knew the truth was waiting

But I was not yet able

My throat became

A locked door

The quiet made a shelter

For the things I could not name

I left them in the stillness

And walked out looking the same

Not gone

Not forgiven

Just resting somewhere

I can reach

One day I may return there

With a softer kind of breath

And find the words still waiting

Untouched by anyone else