I open my mouth, but words fall dead
nothing is real if you’re not said.
I speak, but nothing feels true
every thought just leads to you.

My love for you was anachronistic,
A story you never knew to read.
I waited like a letter never sent,
While you moved on, without a second glance.

You lived in today,
I was stuck in a time that never was,
Loving you with words you’d never hear,
A love that felt lost before it began.

Now, I’m the echo of a past you erased,
A ghost you’ll never call back.

I thought I was the joy she knew,
Now I see I make her blue.
My love, instead of setting her free,
Chains her soul, weighing her deep.

I swore I’d lift her, make her whole,
Yet I’m the shadow dimming her glow.
I long to be the peace she seeks,
Yet all she feels is the pain I speak.

I love you more than I can say,
But every word just drives away.
I miss you, and with every breath,
I break us more, but can’t forget.

I am filled with words for you,
a love I would speak if it wouldn’t hurt,
but no words can change
what nature has already written.
So I remain silent,
protecting the heart
I was never meant to hold.

You call it delusion,
but in this dream, I survive.
It is in this delusion I crave to exist,
for without you, the world is sharp,
and only the lie keeps me alive.

I want you, yet you’re a ghost in my arms,
A dream that fades with the dawn.
I want to die, yet cowardice binds me.
My hands too weak to end this ache.
So I live, cursed to wander this earth,
Craving a touch that time won’t return.