Static Between Us

You hand me words

But they don't land like echoes

Trapped in static

We speak like strangers

Wearing skin we used to know

But don't believe in

I reach for you, but my hands feel like ghosts

You're beside me, but miles away

There's static between us

And I don't think it clears

I used to feel you in every breath

Now I choke on quiet years

We're touching, but never close

Talking, but never heard

We move like memory

Not meaning like habit learned from better days

I smile for peace, but it feels rehearsed

Like mourning without a grave

You used to see me in colour, now I'm just

Background noise

There's static between us

And I don't think it clears

I used to feel you in every breath

Now I choke on quiet years

We're touching, but never close

Talking, but never heard

I scream inside

But the frequency's wrong

You don't hear it

You don't ask

There's static between us

Like ghosts on opposite ends

I loved you loud

But you answered

Like static

And that's how we died