You stopped showing up
No warning, no sound
Your name stayed quiet
Face down on the ground
I almost called you
A couple of times
Then I let silence
Do what it does
Days turned ordinary
Nights lost your shape
Same streets, same corners
Just missing your weight
I stopped expecting
You’d walk back in
But I never moved
Anything you left here
Then one night you were standing there
Half a word, half a breath in the air
No excuses dressed up clean
Just your eyes saying what you’ve seen
I didn’t chase you down
Didn’t ask where you’d been
I just stood my ground
Let you walk back in
Some things fall apart
Some don’t need to be fixed
You were gone for a while
But not gone enough for this
I never held the key
Never turned it to stop it
You came back to me
The door was never locked
We don’t talk about it
Don’t need to rewind
We both know the distance
We both know the line
There’s a crack in the story
That won’t disappear
But somehow it’s clearer
Now that you’re here
Yeah, you left a mark
No, I won’t pretend
But I’ve seen worse endings
Between better friends
And I could’ve closed it
Made it easy to walk
But something in me
Never turned that lock
I didn’t chase you down
Didn’t rewrite the past
I just stayed around
Let the moment pass
Some things break for good
Some just bend and shift
You were gone long enough
To feel what we almost missed
I never shut it down
Never buried or blocked it
You came back around
The door was never locked
You just walked back in…
like you never really left
