My Sweetheart - JadenWest
The evening settled softly on the sill like falling lace
I keep your photograph beside the clock that keeps its place
Your smile is tilted slightly, caught in late September light
A moment frozen, gentle, holding back the coming night
I trace the line of your jaw with the tip of a memory's finger
Feel the warmth that used to live where shadows now just linger
The house is very quiet since the day you walked away
Yet every creak still answers in the voice you used to say
No grand farewell was spoken, no final tear was shed
Just love that learned to whisper inside the heart instead
My sweetheart
You live where all the tender hours hide
My sweetheart
A gentle lake no evening can subside
You win those fog with the winter, feel with summer's long since past
You remain the only answer, my sweetheart
My sweetheart
A tea pot on the counter, there's a mark where you're less pour
I think we know the wood that time could never quite ignore
I fill it every morning, though the cup stays cold and still
And watch the steam rise slowly like a prayer against my will
Sometimes at dusk I sit where you would read beside the fire
The armchair holds your remnant like a ghost that won't retire
I close my eyes and listen for the pitch you used to turn
And find your presence softer than the lessons I had learned
My sweetheart
You live where all the tender hours hide
My sweetheart
A gentle lake no evening can subside
You win those fog with the winter, feel with summer's long since past
You remain the only answer, my sweetheart
If I move on the echoes, carried on the evening breeze
Then yours would be the sweetest one that ever reached the trees
Not loud enough to startle, not bright enough to blind
Just sweetheart, soft and constant, the rarest piece I find
My sweetheart
Then in my lips still shape when no one's sweet
My sweetheart
You're the worthy cry at every fear
No ending ever claimed you, no sign is ever won
You stay inside the quiet, my sweetheart
Forever my sweetheart
My sweetheart
Still here
Still mine
Always
