We held the sky with borrowed hands

Built a world in shifting sand

I watched you turn like tides retreat

Still hoping you’d come back to me

The silence filled the space between

What we imagined and what we mean

You said, “don’t wait, just let it go,”

But your name echoes when I’m alone

Time doesn’t heal, it rearranges

Familiar faces become strangers

We were almost forever

But we blinked and lost the thread

Now I chase your fading shadow

Through the corners of my head

If I could turn the moment

Back to when we felt complete—

Would it still fall like paper

Or hold like concrete?

I still breathe the words you never said

Still sleep on the wrong side of the bed

Almost isn’t ever enough

But it’s all that I have left of us

We were almost forever

In the quiet we remain

Just a trace of light between us

Falling soft like autumn rain

If I could call you forward

Would the stars align again—

Or are we only echoes

Of what we almost became?

oooh… we were almost…

forever…