Under Roofs

You kept your distance even close

Eyes tracing exits, not the truth

The words we saved for calmer days

Are rusting under roofs

Do you ever watch the evening break

And think it looks like us

Two lights always blinking

One will fade before it must

We kept crossing lines in silence

Thinking time could draw them straight

All those little mercies fading

Came too soon, then came too late

Now your name's a gentle warning

Mine's an echo down the hall

We were almost something steady

'Till the weight began to fall

You say I'm still the colder one

But warmth was what you burned

I tried to build a life from smoke

But it never quite returned

You stood there like a half-closed door

Like someone who's already gone

Every part of you I fought for

Was the part that moved me on

We kept crossing lines in silence

Thinking time could draw them straight

All those little mercies fading

Came too soon, then came too late

Now your name's a gentle warning

Mine's an echo down the hall

We were almost something steady

'Till the weight began to fall

If I said I never meant to lose you

It would still sound like a lie

Because loving you felt endless

But endings learned to multiply

I wanted peace; you wanted ground

We lost the place where both are found

We kept trying to outrun blame

But every turn just said your name

We kept crossing lines in silence

Both waiting to confess

Love's a house that floods so slowly

You don't notice the distress

And when all the rooms went quiet

We mistook it for repair

But peace was just the sound

Of you no longer there