Still Inside Me

I didn’t say goodbye out loud

You never heard the end

But something in your silence

Told me you wouldn’t bend

So I let you take the quiet

And kept the rest for me

A half-completed story

I never set free

Your name still fills the spaces

Where no one else has been

It lives in my reflection

In the places I have seen

I walk through empty rooms

But carry what we were

Not as a broken memory

But something soft and blurred

I thought I could erase you

With time and louder days

But even in the laughter

Your shadow softly stays

It’s not a cry for mercy

It’s not a wish or plea

Just the truth I wake with—

You’re still inside of me

Still inside me like a whisper

That never needs to speak

Like the pause between two heartbeats

Where everything feels weak

You don’t knock on my window

Or call me in the night

But you're still inside me,

Like the dimmest kind of light