I never touched your hand in time
Yet you stirred a storm within
Why awaken a dream so blind
If it was never meant to begin?

If love could breathe without your name
Then why does this breath still sting?
This life, unlived beside your flame
Feels like a song I failed to sing

No mirror holds what you erased
A face grown dim in beauty’s grace
No ocean aches the way I do
Too full to move, yet cut in two

This heart, once loud in every beat
Now spills no sorrow, sings defeat
Its silence chants your vanishing trace
The price I pay, the hollowed space

They told me, “Love knows no precise weight,”
But what of me, who bends and breaks
Your eyes were dusk, I drowned in them
Perhaps your grief was mine to take

Perhaps this grief was home to me
A river frozen willingly.