Footsteps slow on gravel path
Every turn subtracts your laugh
Fields grow wide, but space feels thin
You’re still printed on my skin
Even sky, once blue and bright
Feels like dusk without your light
Shadows stretch and pull me back
Toward the curve where you went slack
Winds don’t carry names so well
But I hear the way you fell
Through the hush of open land
Still I reach without a hand
You fade in distance, soft and true
Like a light that once was you
Even if the road is clear
Your outline still hovers near
Like a sketch the sky erased
Still your form is interlaced
Every breath I try to take
Draws the shape I didn’t make
Crows take flight above the bend
Wish I chased you to the end
But I stayed, too proud to run
Now I walk without the sun
Hollow roots beneath my feet
Know the truths I never speak
Every mile I walk alone
Feels like steps I should’ve known
All the words I didn’t give
Still find ways in me to live
What we lost won’t leave in time
It just echoes in the rhyme
You fade in distance, soft and true
Like a light that once was you
Even if the road is clear
Your outline still hovers near
Though I turn and face the wind
It just leads me back again
To the spot your shadow fell
Where I whispered my farewell
Even if the time was wrong
You were right where I belonged
Now the wind just moves too fast
Chasing ghosts I let slip past
You fade in distance, soft and true
Like a light that once was you
Even if the road is clear
Your outline still hovers near
I may walk with steady pace
But you blur in every place
Even silence has your name
Etched in every step I claim
Every turn subtracts your laugh
Fields grow wide, but space feels thin
You’re still printed on my skin
Even sky, once blue and bright
Feels like dusk without your light
Shadows stretch and pull me back
Toward the curve where you went slack
Winds don’t carry names so well
But I hear the way you fell
Through the hush of open land
Still I reach without a hand
You fade in distance, soft and true
Like a light that once was you
Even if the road is clear
Your outline still hovers near
Like a sketch the sky erased
Still your form is interlaced
Every breath I try to take
Draws the shape I didn’t make
Crows take flight above the bend
Wish I chased you to the end
But I stayed, too proud to run
Now I walk without the sun
Hollow roots beneath my feet
Know the truths I never speak
Every mile I walk alone
Feels like steps I should’ve known
All the words I didn’t give
Still find ways in me to live
What we lost won’t leave in time
It just echoes in the rhyme
You fade in distance, soft and true
Like a light that once was you
Even if the road is clear
Your outline still hovers near
Though I turn and face the wind
It just leads me back again
To the spot your shadow fell
Where I whispered my farewell
Even if the time was wrong
You were right where I belonged
Now the wind just moves too fast
Chasing ghosts I let slip past
You fade in distance, soft and true
Like a light that once was you
Even if the road is clear
Your outline still hovers near
I may walk with steady pace
But you blur in every place
Even silence has your name
Etched in every step I claim