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Echoes in Empty Rooms
Your laughter lingers where you no longer stand,
A ghost of warmth that brushes past my ear,
I walk the halls and hear you, sweet and grand,
Yet find the rooms as hollow as a tear.
The chairs still hold the shape of how you sat,
The window keeps the light you used to lend,
And every corner hums with what we had,
A song that knows the ending of its end.
I speak your name to walls that do not answer,
And hear it bounce back soft, then fade to none,
Like love that loops in silence, a faint dancer,
Performing for a crowd that's long since gone.
So I will keep these rooms as shrines to you,
And let your laughter echo, bright and true,
Though I can never win the heart that rang,
I keep its music, and I sing it, all the same.
The Harbor I Cannot Reach
I watch your ship sail past the bay,
its sails all full of wind and light,
while I stand rooted where I stay,
and wave to you from silent night.
I guard a flame you never see,
a hope that burns but does not rise,
and carve your name in the open sea,
where waves erase it with their sighs.
Yet still I wait upon the shore,
as though the tide might turn for me,
and love you more than I did before,
though love is all you cannot be.
So let the water take my prayer,
and let the gulls carry my plea,
for I will keep my vigil there,
inside the heart you'll never see.
The Name I Keep Unsaid
I carry you the way a stone holds heat,
quiet and warm long after the sun has gone.
Your name sits on my tongue like a closed door,
the key worn smooth from being held and never turned.
At dusk I practice it in the empty room,
syllables soft as breath against the glass,
and then I swallow them, as one swallows grief,
because some words are only safe unspoken.
You walk through rooms I cannot follow you into,
laughing at things that never reach my ears,
and I learn the ache of standing near a fire
that has no need of the hands it warms.
So let the name remain a locket shut,
a small, bright ache I wear beneath my ribs.
I cannot win you, but I can keep you,
and the keeping, too, is a kind of love.
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Morning's Tide
I dream of you in silver light,
A hand held out, a shared delight,
But dawn comes creeping, pale and cold,
And every vision breaks like gold.
The sun unthreads the night I weave,
Your face dissolves before I grieve,
And I am left with empty air,
A name I cannot say aloud or share.
So each new day I rise and smile,
And hide the ache for a little while,
Though nightly I return to you,
And wake again to lose you true.
Borrowed Silver
The moon spills light on a sleeping street,
And every shadow pulls me back to you.
I watch the silver map the empty sheet,
And write the names I never dared to say to you.
The night is kind to those who dream in vain,
It lets them hold a face that is not theirs.
I wear your absence like a quiet chain,
And count the hours in the dark affairs of prayers.
You walk in light I cannot gather in,
A distant orbit I was never meant to know.
The tide still rises for the moon's old sin,
And I am one more heart it pulls to go.
So let the moonlight bathe the cruel ground,
I'll take what gleams and leave the rest to dawn.
For love I cannot win is still love found,
And even borrowed silver keeps me warm till morn.
The Sweetness Turns
I keep the summer we shared like a jar of honey,
sealed tight against the years that try to thin it.
At first each memory tasted bright and golden,
your laughter warm on the tongue of every evening.
But time is patient, and it stirs the sugar slow,
until the sweet grows heavy, edged with something low.
The porch light still recalls the way you leaned in close,
and now it aches the way a bruise will ache from those.
I cannot win the heart that drifted off to other skies,
so I drink the memory slowly, watching the bitterness rise.
What was once a feast now lingers like a salted tear,
and I keep it anyway, because loving you was never clear.
Roses in the Window
I bought you roses, red as a promise,
and set them, trembling, upon your sill.
Each morning I checked their petals for signs
that something in you might bend toward me still.
They opened slowly, then began to fall,
the crimson edges curling into brown,
and every dropped petal on the wood
was a small word I had not let you own.
I watered them as if the water mattered,
as if the stems could drink what I had lost,
but roses do not learn a love's refusal;
they only wilt, and wilt, and count the cost.
So here I stand, with bare stems in my hands,
and the quiet shape of hope still on my tongue,
learning that some gardens are not meant to bloom,
and some hearts, though kind, are never won.
The Window Seat
I watch you laugh across the crowded room,
A sound I hear but never lean into,
Your hand upon another's arm, the bloom
Of warmth that I was never meant to pursue.
I keep my longing folded, small and neat,
A letter never sent, a path untrod,
And learn to live on glimpses, bittersweet,
A love held out at arm's length, not by God,
But by the quiet truth I cannot change:
The door is closed, and I was never the key.
So here I stand with hands forever still,
Reaching for nothing, reaching all the same,
A lantern lit for someone far away,
And still I'll burn for you, though no one knows my name.
The Smile I Wear
I greet you with a steady grin,
As if my heart were not within
The quiet ache I carry still,
A love that bends to no one's will.
You laugh at jokes I've rehearsed,
And I laugh back, my hopes dispersed
Like petals drifting from the tree,
Unseen, unclaimed, and never free.
I pour your coffee, sweet and warm,
And hide the storm behind my form.
No word escapes my guarded tongue,
For silence is the price I've sung.
So smile I will, through every day,
While love sits quiet, turned away.
My joy is painted, bright and bold,
But underneath, the truth is cold.
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The Candle at Dawn
I kept a flame for you through every night,
Trimmed its wick and shielded it from the wind,
Believing that a glow so small and bright
Could warm the cold heart I had hoped to win.
But morning crept across the sleeping hills,
And pale light met the wax that I had kept,
The fire grew thin, its trembling heart spilled
As every hope I carried softly slept.
You never saw the vigil I would keep,
Nor how the darkness felt when you walked on.
I loved you as the candle loves its sleep,
Giving its light until the light was gone.
So let the dawn come gently, let it stay,
The flame has done its part, and now it fades away.
Morning Rain
I dream of you in the hush of night,
A garden grown from a secret seed,
Where your laughter drifts like silver light
And every promise feels like need.
But dawn arrives with its gray demand,
The window weeps its quiet tears,
And all my dreams, so softly planned,
Dissolve like frost across the years.
I gather them in trembling hands,
These fragile shapes of what might be,
Yet rain falls down on empty sands
And washes you again from me.
So let the morning take its toll,
Let dreams run gently to the sea;
I'll keep the ache, the open soul,
And love you in my memory.
The Quiet Harbor
I learned to love you in the hush of days,
In coffee cooling while you spoke of rain,
In all the small and unremarkable ways
That never asked to be asked again.
I kept my hands folded in my lap,
My wishes tucked beneath a careful smile,
And let you walk the road without a map,
Not knowing I had walked it all the while.
Now I unwind the thread a stitch at a time,
Like loosening a knot I was too kind to tug,
And learn to call the ache a kind of rhyme,
A lullaby I hum to bring me snug.
Some loves are harbors, some are only tides,
And I have sailed with the one that would not stay.
So let the water take me to the other side,
And I will wave to you, and turn, and drift away.
