I still hear your voice in the quiet of dawn,
Like a breath in the wind, though you’ve long since gone.
And somehow, it comforts it doesn’t undo
Because even in silence, I carry you.
You’re there in the laugh I can’t quite explain,
In the echo that rises with sudden rain.
You’re the warmth in a place that should feel cold,
The part of my story that still makes me whole.
I thought love would end when you slipped away,
But it’s grown in the softest, most tender way.
It lives in my footsteps, steady and true,
Each one a reminder I once walked with you.
I speak to you often, though no one can hear,
And sometimes I swear you’re suddenly near.
You show up in dreams and linger in skies—
In the hush between heartbeats, in tears I disguise.
Grief, I've learned, is just love unspoken,
A bond still intact though the world feels broken.
So I go on living, not just for me
But for all that we shared, and all we will be.
You’re not truly gone, not to my soul
You’re the quiet that makes all the pieces feel whole.
And in every tomorrow I stumble through,
I carry, with love, the best parts of you.
©s_riley16
S