You Left Too Soon

Late bus ride home

Your name on my phone

Screen stays cold

Heart does too

Your empty chair

Still pulled out halfway

Cup on the table

Lipstick on the rim

Faint stain

I talk to air

Like you might answer

Replay the last night

Until the colors blur and fray

You left too soon

Like a movie cut mid-scene

All our lines

Falling through the in-between

I reach my hand

But it passes through your room

I’m standing in June

You left too soon

Friends say time

Will fix the corners

But every morning

I wake up where you left me

Your blue jacket

Hangs like a question

How do I wear it

When you’re just a memory

If I had one more minute

Would I beg you to stay

Or let you go

If I had one more sunrise

Would I watch your shadow fade slow [low vocal register]

I scroll our photos

Till the colors turn to gloom

Pause on your smile

Unpause the ache in my room