Memories Fade

Your face is losing edges in my mind

Like a photograph left in the sun

I chase the details every night

But they scatter before I touch one

I remember how you laughed, I think

Or maybe that's a sound I made up

I hold your name between my teeth

Afraid if I speak it, it'll break apart

There's a hole where certainty lived

I swear it's getting wider every day

If I let the truth keep shifting

What's left of you will drift away

Memories fade

And I'm scared of the quiet they leave

I'm scared I'll change

The shape of you just to breathe

If I forget the weight of your hands

Or the way you said my name

Does that mean I'm healing

Or just letting memories fade

I replay moments like evidence

Trying to keep them in line

But time keeps tampering with the tape

And the facts don't survive

I write you down so you stay real

Like ink could keep you whole

But even words start lying to me

When I read them growing old

There's a panic under every thought

Like something's slipping out of reach

If love can rot inside the brain

What does that make grief

Memories fade

And I'm scared of the quiet they leave

I'm scared I'll change

The shape of you just to breathe

If I forget the sound of your voice

Or the nights we couldn't sleep

Does that mean I'm healing

Or just letting memories fade

If I lose you a second time

Does it hurt less or more

If you only live in fragments

Am I lying to be sure

Memories fade

But I carry what I can save

Every scar, every mistake

Every word I couldn't say

If I forget you, I'm afraid

I'll forget who I became

So I hold on to the pain

While the memories fade