You're flowing somewhere I can't follow

I'm stuck here watching rain hit pavement

They say all water finds the sea eventually

But what if eventually is just a word we use for never

I still wear the shirt you left behind

It doesn't smell like you anymore

Just detergent and my own desperate hoping

That distance is just temporary geography

We're supposed to end up in one ocean

That's what I tell myself when it gets dark

But right now you're a river I can't touch

And I'm just rain that hasn't learned to fall yet

Some nights I swear I feel you in my chest

Like the tide pulling blood through my veins

Then morning comes and you're still gone

And I'm still here pretending water has memory

What if we're just droplets that evaporate

Before we ever reach the shore

What if one ocean is just something beautiful I need to believe

So the missing doesn't hollow me out completely

But I keep flowing anyway

Even when the path feels like it's drying up

Because the alternative is standing still

And at least the river gets to move toward something