Turn Around

You used to glance back when the sky turned grey

Like you knew I was there just a breath away

I never asked, I never spoke

I just followed the path in the steam and smoke

You danced through crowds like they were air

I memorized your weightless stare

The way your fingers held the wind

Like you were always somewhere I'd never been

Ten steps behind, but never lost

I bore the quiet, you paid the cost

You were the wildfire, I was the rain

You lit the match, I took the blame

You didn't ask, I didn't plead

I just stayed close enough to bleed

Now you don't look back, not even once

And I'm still walking like it means something

I knew your bruises, the ones you'd hide

Behind your laugh and sharpened pride

You never need me to fix a thing

Just to be there, soft and listening

But you grew wings I couldn't see

And left before I learned to leave

Now every road leads back to you

Even ones I swore I'd never do

Ten steps behind, it felt like home

Till you outgrew what we had known

You were the thunder, I was the hush

You moved on fast, I moved on crushed

I didn't chase, I didn't cry

Just wrote your name in every line

And I still whisper to the night

That I was yours, even out of sight

I wonder if you miss my quiet feet

Or how I match your broken beat

I wonder if you meant to go

Or if you needed space to grow

But I stayed steady, stayed your ghost

Held the ground you loved the most

Now all that's left are steps behind

And an echo where your hand met mine

Ten steps behind, just echoes now

I'd follow still, if time allowed

You were the fire, I was the ash

You were the future, I was the flash

You don't look back, and that's okay

I'll love you quietly anyway

But I still walk the way you left