Hope After You

In the empty air I reach for you, but you're not there

I counted every tear I cried Held the pieces I had to hide

The world said time would heal the pain But I was lost in love's refrain

I thought my heart would never mend I thought I'd never smile again

But slowly through the aching blue I found a spark, a hope after you

It's like sunrise breaking through the dark It whispers softly you'll make it through

And plants a light back in my heart I thought love ended when you went away

But life teaches me to stay, hope after you Is learning how to love anew

I walk the streets we used to know The memories follow soft and slow

I still feel you in the wind But now it feels like a gentle friend

I don't forget, I can't erase The way you shaped my heart, my space

But life goes on and I can too I carry your love and find something new

I still stumble, I still fall I still feel the absence most of all

But in the quiet there's a light That tells me I'll be alright

Hope after you Is like sunlight through the rain

It mends the heart that once was torn And teaches me to smile again

I thought love died when you walked away But now it guides me every day

Hope after you Is finding life's colors in shades of blue

Maybe love never truly ends It lives in the way we've been

Through grief, through tears, through broken nights It grows again in subtle lights

I honor you in every step I take But I am learning to awake

To laughter, dreams, and skies so wide Hope after you is by my side

Hope after you Is a whisper in the wind aside

A promise that my heart can breathe A chance to love, to live, to try

I carry both the past and now And I've learned to make it through

Hope after you Is the love that teaches me to move

So when I smile, when I laugh, when I dream No, it's not forgetting what has been

It's learning life still shines, it's true And I live

With hope after you