Lyric

Your shoulder stayed close

In the freight lift light

Two floors of silence

And nowhere to hide

No one had named it

So no one could stay

We learned the doorway

Then looked away

I knew the small pause

Before you withdrew

The way you made space

And called it the truth

I had no claim

No scene to make

Only a feeling

Too late to take

Close Enough to Leave

Not close enough to call it love

You gave me half a room

Then packed it up

No promise on the table

No reason you should stay

But something in me opened

When you stepped away

Canal-side stairwell

Fluorescent blue

Your hand on the railing

Not reaching through

Warehouse windows

Kept blinking behind

Like somebody counting

What we left unsigned

I knew every exit

Before you chose one

The coat on your arm

The unsaid, the almost done

I smiled like a person

Who understood

Then walked home carrying

More than I should

We were near enough to hurt

Not near enough to ask

You moved like a shadow

I treated like glass

No name for the damage

No right to complain

Just the shape of your leaving

Under my name

No ending

No siren

No door slammed hard

Just your breath disappearing

From the loading yard

Now I know a half-love

Can leave a full bruise

Even when nobody

Meant to choose

We were near enough to hurt

Not near enough to stay

You left like a weather shift

Over the bay

No promise on the table

No reason you should know

But I changed in the space

Where you let go

I kept the distance

After the touch

I kept the almost

Because it was enough