Still Yours in the Silence

You were younger, but you made me feel seen

Like time bent around us, like love in between

Late nights laughing till the sky turned gray

Felt like forever could start that day

We weren’t perfect, but damn, we were close

Every I love you, I swear, I meant most

Learning each other like verses in rhyme

Two souls syncing, outside of time

I held you close like I held my breath

Scared that too much love would lead to death

Of what we had — and yeah, I was wrong

Did some dumb shit, now you’re gone

Might’ve been betrayal — I won’t pretend

I fucked up something I swore to defend

Didn’t see it then, now I bleed with the cost

Every second without you feels like a loss

We were more than a fling, more than a phase

You were the calm in my chaotic haze

Age ain’t nothing when souls align

And I swear yours fit perfect with mine

You knew me deep — past the mask, past pride

The me no one sees, you kept by your side

Now your silence hits like a scream in my chest

And I’d give it all just to clean up this mess

I miss you like lungs miss air

Like prayers miss gods that were never there

I talk to your ghost when I’m driving alone

Still hope one day you’ll pick up the phone

Even if we ain’t meant for “always and ever”

Don’t mean we couldn’t have lasted forever

Forever in our way — long, real, true

Forever in the way I still ache for you

You meant the world, you still fucking do

Even now when I know I lost you too

Not a night goes by where I don’t rewind

To your laugh, your love, your brilliant mind

To the way you’d curl up and fall asleep

To the way you held me when I fell too deep

You were my everything, still are in ways

I carry you quiet through all of my days

So if you’re out there, if you hear this line

Just know I still love you, still call you mine

Even if I’m not yours, even if you moved on

Even if I fade when the morning’s gone

I was stupid, reckless, blind to the gold

Took the rarest thing I had and let it grow cold

But I’d wait, I’d crawl, I’d change it all

Just to be the one you still choose to call

And maybe love like ours don’t get clean

But maybe broken still means something seen

And maybe you don’t forgive — that’s fair

But if you ever need someone, I’ll be there

You were more than a chapter, more than a start

You carved your name into the walls of my heart

And even in silence, when the world moves on

I’ll still be yours… even after you’re gone.