Lyric

Maybe it started

In the silence after laughter

You looked down at your hands

Like you were holding something broken

And I kept talking

About nothing

About weather

About work

Just to drown out

How your eyes had already left

You said

“I’m tired”

And I heard “I’m gone”

Four quiet words

That tore the room open

I smiled like I understood

While my chest caved in

You said

“I’m tired”

And I heard “this is the end”

Under the awning

Of that café we never liked

You watched the buses

Counting strangers like excuses

I tried a joke

It fell flat between our feet

You stirred cold coffee

Like you could delay goodbye

You said

“It happens”

And I heard “not enough”

Like love was just a weather change

And we forgot our coats

I nodded like it made sense

While my hands shook in my sleeves

You said

“It happens”

And I heard

“you’re easy to leave”

Later that evening

Your photos glowed inside a box

I scrolled too slowly

Afraid of finding my own face

Every caption

Felt like someone else’s life

I kept breathing

But it sounded like a lie

You wrote

“Be happy”

And I read

“forget me soon”

Blue light on an empty room

Echoed through my skin

I typed “you too”

Hit send then hit the floor

You wrote

“Be happy”

And I heard

“want me no more”

Years in the future

I’ll pass a street that knows our names

Some small disaster

Like a song in a grocery line

Will pull you back

So sudden I could almost speak

I’ll look around

But only find my shadow

I’ll think

“I’m better”

Yet I’ll taste that night again

Four fading letters

Still burning on my tongue

I’ll whisper to the air

Like you’re just around the bend

“I’m not tired

I was ready to pretend”

If I could go backward

To that first quiet “tired”

I’d take your shaking fingers

Place them on my ribs

Say

“Feel this riot

It’s all for you

It’s all for you”

But the past stays shut

And I stay here

Learning to lose you