You’re quiet when you walk into the room,

Like you’re carrying a story you won’t say.

I try to read the distance in your eyes,

But you look down and turn away.

There’s something in the space between your breaths,

A truth you’re trying not to show,

And I can feel you slipping through the night,

Even while you stand so close.

You say you’re fine, but your voice is shaking,

Like you’re holding on to something fading.

I think you remember something

Every time you look at me that way

Something you tried to bury

But it’s rising up again tonight.

I don’t know what you’re running from

Or why you flinch when our hands collide,

But I think you remember something

That you thought you left behind.

You whisper that you never meant to feel,

That you promised yourself you wouldn’t stay.

I tell you that it’s alright to be unsure,

But you’re scared of what you’d give away.

You’ve built a world where nothing ever sticks,

Where no one sees the cracks you hide,

But somehow I can trace them in the dark

Just by how you breathe beside me.

You say you’re fine, but your guard is slipping,

Like you’re fighting off a memory hitting.

I think you remember something

Every time you look at me that way

Something you tried to bury

But it’s rising up again tonight.

I don’t know what you’re running from

Or why you flinch when our hands collide,

But I think you remember something

That you thought you left behind.

You don’t have to name it,

You don’t have to choose.

Just stay in the moment

Before we both lose

The thing in your heartbeat,

The truth in your eyes

Whatever you’re hiding

Is calling you back to life.

I think you remember something

Every time the silence pulls you near

Something you thought was broken

That’s still beating when I’m here.

I don’t know what you’re running from

Or why you shake when our worlds align,

But I think you remember something

Something that once was mine,

Something that once was mine.