Someday

I watch you move through daylight

Like you’re made of fragile bone.

Every cough, every quiet sigh

Hits deeper than you know.

I memorize your laughter

’Cause I’m scared it’s running thin—

I hold you like a moment

I’ll never get again.

And I’m terrified

Of the day you won’t be here.

Of waking up to silence

Where your voice used to appear.

The world keeps turning forward—

But I’m frozen to the thought:

Someday you’ll be gone,

And I’ll be left with what I’m not.

Your hands look a little older,

Your steps a little slow.

You say, “I’m fine, don’t worry,”

But the truth is hard to know.

I count the days too closely,

Every sunset feels like loss—

I’m scared of all the endings

That I can’t afford to stop.

And I’m terrified

Of the day you won’t be here.

Of waking up to silence

Where your voice used to appear.

The world keeps turning forward—

But I’m frozen to the thought:

Someday you’ll be gone,

And I don’t know who I’ll be or what.

If love could buy you years,

I’d beg time on my knees…

But fear is all I carry,

’Cause none of us are guaranteed.

And I’m terrified

Of losing you too soon.

Of standing in the empty

Where your life once filled the room.

I know I can’t prevent it,

But the fear still lingers on—

Every heartbeat whispers low:

Someday… you’ll be gone.