Here's to the Past

I left the lights off for a reason

Let the cold become my season

Framed your face behind the glass

Watched the years refuse to pass

You were the ghost in every room

A quiet threat I could assume

I learned to live around the bruise

Like pain I didn't get to choose

So here's to the past

To the weight I wore like a cast

To the silence that taught me how to speak without breaking fast

Here's to the past

To the version of me that stayed

Who held the line while I decayed

Here's to the past

The signs are new but the roads still bend

Like they're waiting for us to pretend

The field we crossed is fenced and bare

But I still see you standing there

You made your vows to open air

I kept them like they'd still be there

Like letters lost along the way

I read them anyway

So here's to the past

To the weight I wore like a cast

To the silence that taught me how to speak without breaking fast

Here's to the past

To the version of me that stayed

Who held the line while I decayed

Here's to the past

You don't get credit for what you survived

You lit the match then ran to hide

Here's to the past

To the fire I didn't light

But still had to fight

To the mirror I faced

When no one else did

Here's to the past

Not for what it gave

But for what it couldn't rid

We both knew it wouldn't last

So here's to the past