I know you from the way you linger,
Even when I’m awake,
You move through me without a sound
Like a memory I can’t shake.
I don’t reach, but I feel you near
Closer than what I can see.
What followed me out of sleep
Is standing here with me.
Gravity loosens, but doesn’t break,
The air grows tight between us.
Nothing asks me to step away,
Nothing lets me forget.
I hear you in the dark
Not calling — just aware.
A shape I never touch
Still holding everywhere.
I hear you in the dark
Where distance has no name.
Every step I never take
Still pulls me all the same.
The room remembers how you stand
Even when I turn away.
Shadows lean where you should be
And choose not to decay.
Time folds in on every breath.
The floor knows where you are.
Nothing here has learned to fade.
Nothing travels far.
I stop mistaking ache for loss.
I stop asking what is real.
What never left my dreaming mind
Has weight I can still feel.
You don’t speak,
You don’t leave,
You remain
In between.
I hear you in the dark
Not waiting — just intact,
A place that keeps its pressure
No matter how I act.
I hear you in the dark
Where closeness doesn’t bind.
I don’t wake to chase the truth,
I wake inside the line.
I don’t know where you are
Or what you became,
But something still moves
When I say your name.
I feel you here,
And I wait.
