Echoes of a Faded Love

You don't say much these days. Your eyes just look away. And I talk

like we're okay, like love didn't just fade. I still set a place for

you at the table by the door. I still wait

for your footsteps that don't echo anymore. I'm holding on while you're letting

go. Clutching all these pieces of a love I used to

know. The hope that kills you doesn't last, just know I

can't change the past. I wish I could but know it's not enough.

The things I've said or could have done, the things that made you fall