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Your door stayed shut

Mine too

You didn’t lean

To kiss again

You just looked out

Through the windshield

A red light blinking

Across your face

Like it was asking

If we’d erase

The radio played

But soft and low

Neither of us

Turned it off

Your fingers tapped

Against the wheel

Like you were trying

Not to feel

No one spoke

But something changed

In the space

Where we remained

After the quiet

Nothing’s the same

We didn’t move

But we crossed a line

After the quiet

Spring felt thin

Like something small

Had let us in

After the quiet

We both knew

There was no undo

You didn’t reach

For your phone

You didn’t say

You had to go home

Your eyes stayed soft

But far away

Like you were already

Leaving the day

A car passed by

We didn’t turn

Some things ache

Without a burn

If this was only

One mistake

Why does it feel

Like something we’d take?

After the quiet

Breath too slow

We didn’t speak

But we let it grow

After the quiet

Hands still warm

Like spring had taken

A different form

No one saw

No one knew

But something fragile

Shifted in you

The night stayed soft

The sky stayed blue

But it wasn’t

The same as before

After the quiet

We stayed still

Not from fear

But from will

After the quiet

Close, but apart

Like we both

Heard the start

After the quiet

Spring so light

We didn’t leave

We stayed all night

The engine

Still running