Everything is Almost

The clock ticks wrong here

Off just enough to notice

We never got there, but we almost did

You always flinched just before the kiss

I told myself that meant something real

But almost is a wound that never heals

I've held on to broken maybes

Like they might grow back whole

Everything is almost

Every light, a lie

Every word you nearly said

Still echoes in my spine

Everything is almost

And I can't move on

From what we never were

But almost were

You changed the subject like it burned

I let it slide, I never learned

That silence too is something said

Just hard to quote once it's dead

I map the void where answers should be

And find the shape of me

Everything is almost

A scar without a name

A memory in pieces

Still pointing back the same

Everything is almost

Like frost that won't melt

I trace it 'til I'm numb

Still feel where you were felt

Almost. Always almost...

You were. You weren't. You were