Where the Light Still Knows My Name

Verse 1

Hello, old ache, my familiar friend,

You came to sit with me again.

In rooms where echoes knew my voice,

And every memory made the choice

To linger longer than it should,

Like shadows misunderstood.

I walked alone through silent days,

Counting time in shades of gray.

Verse 2

I spoke to dreams that would not stay,

Watched tomorrows slip away.

The walls all listened, none replied,

Hope felt like a foreign tide.

In the quiet, grief grew loud,

A storm beneath an empty crowd.

I learned how heavy loss can be

When love leaves scars you cannot see.

Verse 3

Then softly—almost out of frame—

A warmth arrived without a name.

Not loud enough to break the pain,

Just steady as a summer rain.

It didn’t rush, it didn’t try,

It simply met me where I cried.

And for the first time in a while,

The dark released me for a mile.

Verse 4

You didn’t promise me a cure,

Didn’t say the hurt was gone for sure.

You sat beside the broken ground,

Where something holy still was found.

Your presence said what words could not,

That love remembers what loss forgot.

And in your eyes I came to see

The man I was before the bleed.

Verse 5

Now silence sings a different tune,

Not absence—but a quiet room

Where healing breathes between the lines,

And grief loosens its grip on time.

I still carry what I’ve lost,

But not alone, and not the cost

I thought I’d pay forevermore—

Love taught my sorrow something more.

Final Verse

So goodbye, old ache—you shaped my skin,

But you won’t be where my story ends.

For in the space where loss once stayed,

A gentler truth has learned my name.

And in the hush of all I’ve been,

Hope spoke softly…

And I listened.