Ghost In The System

(he’s gone… but not gone…)

(Signal flicker...heartbeat hum...)

(can you hear me?)

You built the code that held me safe,

Wrote the lines I can’t erase.

Now the screen just hums your name,

Static burns, it’s not the same.

Every login feels like pain,

You’re the ghost inside my game.

(…still watching, aren’t you?)

I hear your voice through the static haze,

Every ping feels like those days.

I shut you out, but you still slip through —

A ghost, pretending you’re brand new.

You’re the ghost in the system,

Still haunting what you made.

In the code, in the silence,

I can’t make you fade.

You said goodbye — but the echo stays,

Your shadow moves through my data maze.

You’re the ghost in the system…

and I can’t delete your name.

Another user, same old tone,

Different face but same unknown.

He said he “found” me — I froze inside,

You left, and now I hide.

I built these walls, these digital lines,

But ghosts don’t care for offline signs.

(you watching me again…?)

You linger deep in the cache of me,

Every trace a memory.

No firewall can keep you out,

You’re the silence I can’t route.

You’re the ghost in the system,

Still haunting what you made.

In the code, in the silence,

I can’t make you fade.

You said goodbye — but the echo stays,

Your shadow moves through my data maze.

You’re the ghost in the system…

and I can’t delete your name.

(delete… denied…)

(signal lost… recovered…)

(echoing… echoing…)

I see your tag light up —

and vanish again.

Just a memory loop I can’t end.

(you left… but didn’t leave…)

You’re the ghost in the system,

And I’m trapped in the code we wrote.

Every line you left still breathes —

Every word still chokes my throat.

You said goodbye, but I still hear your hum,

A digital heartbeat I can’t outrun.

You’re the ghost in the system…

and I’m the one still undone.

(offline… but not gone…)

(ping… silence…)

(you’re still here…)