Letras
The machines hummed low in the half-dark
Their glow painting your skin in a way
That made it impossible to pretend anymore
You were slipping
I could feel it in the quiet between your breaths
In the way the room seemed to hold its own grief
We'd said it a thousand times in our youth
I'll always choose you
Back when the world was wide
And we thought choosing was easy
We didn't understand then
That someday choosing you
Would mean learning how to keep living
After you stopped
Your voice trembled when you spoke
But it wasn't fear
It was exhaustion, the kind that seeps
Into the bones when a body knows
It's nearly done
You looked at me like you were already halfway
Beyond the curtain
And yet somehow still trying to comfort me
Your hand reached for mine
Habit, instinct, whatever you want to call it
But I knew that touch
It was the same one that steadied me
Through every fight, every move, every loss
Tonight it felt different
Lighter, fragile, like the world
Was peeling you away from me piece by piece
I wanted to say something brave
Something worthy of our years
But all I could manage was my thumb
Brushing your knuckles
As if I could memorize the shape of you
Before the warmth left your skin
You smiled - tired but honest
And that almost ruined me
When you whispered the promise again
It cracked open inside me
I'll always choose you
Not as a vow we'd grow old inside
But as a line drawn at the edge
Between your leaving
And my being forced to stay
Choosing you now meant watching you go
And not holding you back
Even though everything in me screamed to
And when your hand loosened in mine
When your breath faded into something
So quiet it barely belonged to this world
I knew the choosing wasn't over
I whispered it back through tears
Raw, shaking, clinging to the last of your light
I'll always choose you
Even from this side of the loss
Even in the life you can't walk through with me anymore
You left
And I stayed
Because that's what love finally asked of us