Echoes of Us

A cycle of poems «Your Fragments of a Broken Heart»

Empty rooms and dusty shelves
Hold the stories we told ourselves
Sunlight streams in, cold and stark
Highlighting where we left our mark
Your perfume lingers in the air
A ghost of kisses, a silent prayer
In every corner, a memory sleeps
Whispering secrets the silence keeps

Echoes of us, reverberating still
In this hollow space, against my will
Footsteps fading, laughter's gone astray
Just echoes of us, haunting me today

This weathered porch, we watched the rain
Shared whispered dreams and eased the pain
The swing set sways, a lonely creak
A silent promise it couldn't keep
I trace your name upon the wall
Where we carved hearts, back before the fall
Now the paint is cracked, the wood is worn
Like a love abandoned, left out in the storm

Echoes of us, reverberating still
In this hollow space, against my will
Footsteps fading, laughter's gone astray
Just echoes of us, haunting me today

I try to silence them, to shut them out
To drown the memories with a desperate shout
But they cling to me, like vines around a tree
Forever bound to what we used to be

Echoes of us, reverberating still
In this hollow space, against my will
Footsteps fading, laughter's gone astray
Just echoes of us, haunting me today

Maybe someday, the echoes will subside
Maybe someday, I'll learn to leave them behind
But until then, I'll live among the ghosts
Of a love that shattered, and counted the cost.
Echoes of us...
Fading, fading away...