To Be Again
These days have grown so heavy, every hour feels like a year. And eternity’s a punishment I’m forced to sit and hear. I’m trying to make peace with the pieces left of me, but nothing feels familiar in the man I used to be. And I keep falling through the memories, like they’re the only place I breathe. I miss you, but I miss the man I was with you even more. I’m drowning in the quiet, in the emptiness you left inside my door. I want to feel alive again, to recognize my skin I want to be the one I was, I want to learn to be again. I don’t want to chase replacements, or pretend you never stayed. You’re stitched into my better self and into every mistake I made. I’m falling down a darkness that seems bottomless tonight, but maybe all this breaking is the start of getting right. And I keep sinking into silence, trying to find a place to land. I miss you, but I miss the man I was with you even more. I’m drowning in the quiet, in the emptiness you left inside my door. I want to feel alive aga...