I'm standing where we stood in July The wind cuts different now These waves don't sound the same I found something in the sand today A flower, dried and grey Did you leave it here for me?
The heat is gone The sun feels pale I'm tracing where your footprints used to trail
This shore remembers everything we were When summer burned so bright it hurt Now autumn rain falls on my shoulders And I'm whispering goodbye To the tide that takes you further every time
I rub the sand between my fingers slow It slips away like you did Nothing stays, nothing holds The haze that blurred the horizon back then Made everything feel endless Now I see too clear
The warmth we had The words we said They're washing out like they were never there
I watch the water steal our story from the beach Each wave erases what I need to keep The cold reminds me summer's over And I'm learning how to breathe Without the fire that used to live inside of me
If I could fold this flower in my hand And make it bloom again Would you come back? Or am I holding onto ash?
October knows the truth I can't accept That love like ours was always meant to end I'll leave this beach behind me But I'll carry what remains A withered bloom, your name, the ghost of yesterday
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