Pulse... flicker...

Can you hear me through the dust?

Memories don’t die,

They distort.

Woke in a loop, time lagged and frozen,

Thought I healed but the circuit’s open.

Left me unread like a ghost in a thread,

Static in the chest, no signal in the bed.

Talk in code now, glitch when I breathe,

Heartbeat skips like drum machines.

You left in frames, now I'm stuck in between,

Pixels of pain and the ghost of a dream.

—Signal lost—

I built a song with broken tones,

Each line a message carved in snow.

If you can hear me, hum along,

To the silence we both used to know.

(Static in the signal... I’m still there.)

Ran through echoes, heard your name in traffic,

Voice came warped... was it real or static?

All our yesterdays... now cached, decayed,

Tried to reload but the file’s been frayed.

I see you in lights, flickering wrong,

Laugh tracks muted in our favorite song.

Time folds in when I dream too long,

Glitched-out love in a world gone wrong.

You were

You are

You might’ve been

I loop the truth till it bends again.

(Tune me out, then tune me in...)

Where do I end and you begin?

I sent a signal wrapped in sound,

A whisper lost but still unbound.

If echoes mean the line’s still live,

Then maybe ghosts like us survive.

(Static in the signal... I’m still... I’m still...)

...still here…