The Scent of You

Verse 1

Your name arrives before your footsteps,

Carried in the quiet of the air.

I breathe, and something ancient opens,

Something older than the words I wear.

My body knows you before I know you,

My pulse remembers what my mind forgets.

Your scent moves through me like a prophecy,

A truth my bones have never once misread.

Chorus

And oh—

The scent of you unravels me,

Softens every guarded place.

It enters like a whispered homecoming,

Like rain returning to a thirsty plain.

I breathe you in, and I am undone,

I breathe you in, and I am found again.

Verse 2

Even your clothes become a relic,

A shrine of all the ways you’ve lived.

Fabric heavy with your after-presence,

Holding the ghost your body gives.

I lift it to my face like prayer,

A hunger I can’t reason through.

My ribcage opens like a door,

Trying to breathe its way back into you.

Bridge

When distance stretches like a desert,

And night is longer than it should be,

I ache for that invisible field—

The quiet safety of your chemistry.

Where vigilance loosens its trembling grip,

Where the animal in me can finally rest.

Where scent becomes a sacred language,

And longing speaks without a breath.

Chorus (Final)

And oh—

The scent of you unravels me,

Breaks me open, makes me whole.

It calls the oldest parts of me,

The spine, the memory, the soul.

I breathe you in, and I surrender,

I breathe you in, and I return.

To the place where love is primitive,

To the place where bodies learn.

Outro (Spoken / Whispered)

Your scent…

the quiet map my heart follows home.