Please forgive me, I was blind

Thought I knew, but trailed behind

Caught in echoes, soft and thin

I missed the truth beneath your skin

Maybe growing means we learn

After bridges start to burn

Not all answers come in time

Some arrive with no clear sign

Forgive yourself, you couldn’t see

The path was drawn too faint to read

We held on tight, but everything

Was slipping out beneath the sting

I don't need an apology from you

Just need you to know it was true

I lived what I was meant to face

To find some light, leave a trace

Maybe this was how it goes

A quiet climb through highs and lows

To reach the place I couldn’t plan

My crystal mansion in the sand

And what we had — it doesn’t fade

It’s built into the house we never made

Still rings beneath the silence there

Still lingers in the thinning air

So please forgive me, if you can

I was only half a plan

And please forgive your younger self

For trying hard to be someone else

We were too young, too far ahead

To know which words we should have said

But we kept walking all the same

Not for glory, not for blame

We walked because we had to move

And found a life we couldn’t soothe

A path that led through ash and flame

Still holding love — just for forever.......