Things We Left Behind

Your coat still hangs by the door,

Keys don’t rattle anymore.

Half a cup, the coffee dried,

Like the words we never tried.

A watch that stopped on 2:05,

Still pretending it’s alive.

The record spins, the sound is thin,

But I let the song begin.

Things we left behind,

They keep us in their minds.

Every thread, every grain,

Still remembers our names.

Things we left behind,

Frozen in their time.

They don’t fade, they don’t rewind,

Just hold the space between our lives.

A book you marked but never read,

A note you wrote I never said.

Your scent still haunts the pillow’s side,

Like light that never learned to hide.

Things we left behind,

They hum when nights unwind.

I touch them just to know,

That some love doesn’t go.

Things we left behind,

They’re small, but still they shine.

And if I ever let them go,

I’d lose what makes you mine.