Echoes


This city finds new ways to break my heart
each time.
Every street
every pavement,
every room
holds a bittersweet reminder of you
I can hear her laugh echoing down this street
See her dancing under electric lights
Remember us walking arm in arm, into the night.
Echoes.

This city finds new ways to break my heart
each time.
I search
every shadow
every face
But I can’t find that magic glint in her eye.
I can hear her howl into the winter’s night
See her run under the pale moonlight
Remember us clinging to each other as we lost our minds.

Echoes
lingering in my mind
Echoes
of a life we left behind.