I Won t Be Coming Back

We don't finish every sentence.
We don't laugh before the end.
Every touch has learned the distance
Between lovers and old friends.

You still sleep on your side.
I still dream alone.
Funny how a crowded room
Can feel like no one's home.

There's no fire left to save.
Only smoke that fills the room.
We keep watering the branches
Of a long-forgotten bloom.

Every sign has said it softly,
Long before we faced it now.

I won't be coming back now.

You stopped looking when I entered.
I stopped waiting for your eyes.
Even silence sounds exhausted
When it has to tell more lies.

We still know each other's shadows.
We forgot each other's light.
We're just two familiar strangers
Getting very good at night.

No slammed doors.
No last goodbye.
No one's wrong.
No need to try.

Some stories never shatter.
They simply disappear.

And ours has not been here for years.

Leave the pictures where they are.
Leave the dust upon the frame.

Love didn't end in one moment.

It just stopped saying our names.

I won't be coming back.