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Your name appeared at noon

Small light against the gray

Nothing loud had happened

It still took my breath away

The room kept on being simple

A cup, a chair, a wall

But seeing you there waiting

Made the whole day fall

You did not bring the weather

You only crossed my screen

I hated how a kind thing

Could turn hard inside of me

Your name was not the weight

I was the one undone

Some days even love arrives

And I have nowhere it can run

Your name in bad weather

Looked gentle, hard to hold

Like a warm hand through a window

When my side of it was cold

Your name in bad weather

Did not ask me for pain

I just saw you through the gray

And could not answer plain

Not your fault, not your weight

Just a bad day at my gate

Not your fault, not your name

Just my heart losing shape

Outside, the buses moved

The streetlights clicked awake

Someone laughed below the window

Like nothing had to break

Laundry hung across the room

Too damp to fold away

I watched your name stop glowing

And still felt it stay

Your name in bad weather

Looked gentle, hard to hold

Like a warm hand through a window

When my side of it was cold

Your name in bad weather

Was never what was wrong

I had love enough to miss you

Not enough to carry on

Not your fault, not your weight

Just a bad day at my gate

Not your fault, not your name

Just my heart losing shape

I used to like the sound of it

Your name before a door

Your name inside a sentence

I could step into before

Now it comes too softly

And that is why it hurts

Kindness has a way of finding

Every place I made worse

Your name in bad weather

Still looked like something dear

I was not trying to lose you

I was trying not to disappear

Your name in bad weather

Stayed kind after the light

You did not change inside me

I just could not hold you right

The screen went dark and quiet

The room returned to gray

Your name was gone from view

But not from the weather of the day