The Things We Don’t Say

I left the light on

Without really knowing why

Your coat is still lying there

As if you were still here

The walls remember our habits

Our nights too short, our silences

I write your name on the window

Then I slowly erase it

If I could go back in time

I would speak without hesitation

But some stories are meant to exist

And we can’t change them

I dance alone with my memories

In a room that’s too quiet

I say I’m fine, I smile

Even when it hurts

I loved you deeply, I loved you true

Even when it hurt

You remain my most beautiful memory

And nothing will ever be the same again

Your messages are still there

I know I should delete them

I read them over without understanding

At what moment everything changed

We got lost without a sound

No screams, no slamming doors

Love isn’t a battle

But we lacked the strength

If I could go back in time

I would speak without hesitation

But some stories are meant to exist

And we can’t change them

I dance alone with my memories

Under the lights of the past

I grew up in your silences

And in the words I kept

I loved you deeply, I loved you true

Even when it hurt

You remain my most beautiful memory

And nothing will ever be the same again

I think back to all our bursts of laughter

To the promises we let slip away

Every corner of this city reminds me

Of everything we failed to keep

Days go by and I still search

For a trace of you in the wind

But I’m learning to live with the absence

And to keep our memories alive

I dance alone with my memories

Under the lights of the past

I say I’m fine, I smile

Even when it hurts

I loved you deeply, I loved you true

Even when it hurt

You remain my most beautiful memory

And nothing will ever be the same again