Hear You Speak

I still hear you

Even when you’re gone

It’s in the way the night falls quiet

Right before I try to sleep

Like something in the silence

Still remembers how you speak

Not loud, not clear

Just enough to stay

Like words that never left me

But faded in a way

I don’t reach for it

But it comes anyway

I still hear you speak

Like you never left

In the pauses in my mind

In the spaces in my chest

I still hear you speak

Even now, sometimes

Like a voice I used to know

That I never left behind

I don’t try to hold it

Don’t chase it when it fades

But every now and then

It finds me where I stay

In the way I say your name

In the things I almost do

There’s a part of how I live

That still sounds like you

I don’t fight it anymore

Like I used to before

I still hear you speak

Like you never left

In the pauses in my mind

In the spaces in my chest

I still hear you speak

Even now, sometimes

Like a voice I used to know

That I never left behind

If it disappears one day

I don’t know what I’ll lose

Is it you I’m holding onto

Or just the way you moved

I still hear you speak

But it’s softer now

Like a memory learning

How to fade somehow

I still hear you speak

But I let it be

Not everything we lose

Ever really leaves

I still hear you

Just differently