A Room That Used to Breathe

I stood inside the room today

Where once your laughter used to stay

The air was still, the colors pale

A quiet void where warmth grew frail

The curtains swayed as if they knew

How every shadow once was you

A chair untouched, a book half-read

And all the words we left unsaid

It held our mornings, kept our dreams

Now echoes live between the seams

A room that used to breathe

Now holds the silence underneath

It used to glow with light and sound

But now

It's just four walls

And ground

I traced your name against the dust

As if that might restore our trust

But ghosts don't answer when you call

They simply fade into the wall

And as I leave

The door still creaks

Like it remembers

How we speak