What Did I Miss

I came back to the old café

Your favorite booth was gone away

The lights were dim

The songs had changed

Even the walls forgot your name

You moved on in quiet ways

While I replayed the yesterdays

I blinked and time just ran

Like water through my hands

What did I miss?

Was it the way

Your smile began to fade?

The nights you cried

But never said a thing?

I was standing still

Stuck in a kiss

Now I wonder what did I miss?

Your friends don't ask

Me how I've been

They look right through me now

And then

Like I was just a side-effect

Of a heart you had to protect

I thought love was set in stone

Turns out you carved it all alone

And I was too late to see

The cracks inside of me

What did I miss?

The quiet signs you gave and I ignored

The moments that you begged me

To be more

I was chasing dreams, blind to this

Now I'm broken what did I miss?

All the little things

That didn't seem to scream

Were actually the loudest part

I just couldn't hear your heart

What did I miss?

The turning tide beneath

Your steady voice

The way you loved me without a choice

I thought we'd last, but here we sit

Strangers now

And I still ask what did I miss?