Through quiet streets of fading gold
Your name returns with every fold
Of memories drifting through the air
Like leaves that fall without a care
The slow October afternoon
Still hums the echo of your tune
And every shadow on the wall
Reminds me how we used to fall
A line I wrote but left behind
Uncovers pieces of my mind
The ones I thought had disappeared
Come back whenever you feel near
Inside the silence of the day
Your warmth has never slipped away
Though I can’t touch the past again
It lingers soft beneath my skin
If I could send a song to you
Along the breeze the way leaves do
Would it find you where you stand
And rest like autumn in your hands?
And when this season starts to fade
All of the traces that we made
Will shimmer gently in the light
Like distant stars we see at night
Moments slipping out of sight
Still keep me waiting through the night
And in the corners of my mind
Your quiet smile is still defined
As I write down the thoughts I keep
I wonder if across the deep
Of time and change, you feel it too—
This tender pull that leads to you
So I leave notes upon the page
To calm the heart that turns each day
Hoping somehow they’ll reach you there
On this soft October air
