The Great Perhaps

I followed you like fireflies

Through every twist inside your mind

You danced on ledges, smiled at pain

Like breaking things was just your way

You spoke in riddles, I stayed close

Like answers lived inside your smoke

And I believed I’d come to know

The storm you hid beneath your glow

We whispered fears under the stars

You let me in, but not too far

And now I stare at what remains

A question mark inside the rain

You were gone like a song that fades

Half a verse, and no refrain

I still reach through empty space

Trying to hold your hurricane

You were wild, you were fast—

A spark I never could outlast

And I’m still stuck

In the great perhaps

They said you burned too bright to stay

But I just wanted one more day

I thought I knew the way you felt

But you were somewhere else, yourself

I trace the echoes of your laugh

A photograph that breaks in half

I loved the light, ignored the cries

Now all I have are hows and whys

You left your story in the dark

Unfinished lines across my heart

And every word I try to write

Just fades before it finds the light

You were gone like a song that fades

Half a verse, and no refrain

I still reach through empty space

Trying to hold your hurricane

You were wild, you were fast—

A spark I never could outlast

And I’m still stuck

In the great perhaps

Maybe love was never meant to fix you

Maybe I just needed someone broken too

I was chasing hope inside your shadow

Now I’m learning how to let go

You were gone like a dream I had

One I never understood, but never forget

And I still reach through all this grief

Trying to find what’s underneath

You were wild, you were free—

And you never belonged to me

But I’m still lost

In the great perhaps