Lyric

You never said forever

You never said my name

In a sentence with a future

I could point to when it rained

But you stayed past midnight

Left your warmth in my sheets

Kissed my forehead softly

Like it meant something to keep

I learned to live on almost

A look across the room

A text with no clear ending

A door you might come through

There was never enough evidence

To ask for what I needed

Never enough distance

To call myself misled

No Promise, Still Waiting

I sat inside the gap

Between what you never offered

And what you never took back

You gave me just enough feeling

To keep my hands untied

No clear place to blame you

No clean place to hide

I moved my Fridays quietly

So you could change your mind

Kept my questions pretty

Kept my anger out of sight

You said you missed me sometimes

Then disappeared for days

I made a home from sometimes

And called the waiting grace

My friends could not indict you

I had no broken vow

Just little acts of almost

That look foolish spoken out loud

You knew the power

Of leaving things unnamed

A hope without a handle

Cannot be taken away

You never promised clearly

So you wore innocence well

But you fed the small illusion

Then watched me feed myself

You gave no final answer

No cruelty I could prove

Only enough tenderness

To keep me close to you

Then one night

I heard myself defend you

With words you never earned

He is not ready

He is just afraid

He means it softly

He will learn

And something in me turned

I saw the loophole shining

In the way you held my hand

Close enough for comfort

Far enough to never stand

You did not fail the promise

You refused to make

You only let me build one

Then called it my mistake

I am done being loyal

To warmth without a spine

Done calling every almost

A reason to give time

You can keep the doorway

You can keep the rain

I am taking back the evening

I kept saving for your name

No vow was ever broken

No speech, no scene, no fight

Just a girl who stopped mistaking

A maybe for a light