Porchlight Ghosts

There's a porchlight on the gravel road

That still shines after dark

Sometimes I sit beside it

And let old memories spark

I see the boy I almost married

With his hand upon my knee

We dreamed about forever

But forever wasn't free

There was the one who loved me softly

Never asked for much at all

Just a home with painted shutters

And my voice inside the hall

But love don't always blossom

Just because the soil is good

Some hearts keep on wandering

Long past when they should

These ghosts of past loves

Still linger in my chest

Not to scare me, just remind me

Of the stories I've lived best

They haunt me in the quiet

Where the truth comes out the most

I'm not lonely, just surrounded

By these old porchlight ghosts

There was one who taught me heartache

In the cruellest kind of way

Left me crying in a truck cab

On a late September day

But even he comes back in flashes

When the night wind shifts just right

Some lessons carve so deeply

They still echo in the light

These ghosts of past loves

Still linger in my chest

Not to scare me, just remind me

Of the stories I've lived best

They haunt me in the quiet

Where the truth comes out the most

I'm not lonely, just surrounded

By these old porchlight ghosts

And maybe love's not something

You can lose or leave behind

Maybe every broken moment

Builds the strength you come to find

These ghosts of past loves

Ain't pushing me away

They're the footprints of the journey

That led me to today

So I light that porch each evening

For the ones I miss the most

And I thank them for their lessons

All my old porchlight ghosts