Forgot How to Begin

I stare at pages left unread

The stories that we never said

You took the pen and walked away

Before the plot could even stay

Now every line I try to write

Just echoes you and fades from light

I forgot how to begin

When every start still holds your skin

The ink won't dry, the words won't form

Since you left love out of the norm

The songs we wrote still haunt my head

A melody I can't reset

You hummed a tune, then dropped the key

Now all that plays is incomplete

I hold the chorus close to me

But lost the verse to harmony

I forgot how to begin

When every start still holds your skin

The ink won't dry, the words won't form

Since you left love out of the norm

Not every book deserves an end

But I was hoping to pretend

That we could write through every fight

But you erased me overnight

I forgot how to begin

When you wrote "loss" beneath my chin

I turn the page, but still I find

Your name's the start I left behind

So if I try to write again-

It won't be how, but where, or when