Nightfall

There are nights when silence speaks your name,
Where my thoughts reach for you
Like light that fades before nightfall,
Leaving only shadows in your place.

I'm haunted by the absence of your presence,
Shivering in its unbearable cold.
My heart refuses what my mind already knows,
Only your love could ever warm it.

If hope could turn the hands of time,
I'd borrow yesterday once more,
To walk the path that revealed your heart,
The moment yours discovered mine,
When forever felt less like a dream
And more like a promise.

So if destiny calls my name again,
I'll greet fate the way I always do.
With a smile the world believes,
And a heart that still belongs to you.

For some hearts are meant to wander on,
While mine still waits where you've been gone.
Fear has taught me how to hide,
But never how to leave you behind.

I buried your faith beneath the pain,
Covered by laughter, masked in tears.
Yet every breath uncovers it again,
As though sleep denies my rest.

I never asked for one more chance.
I only wished the love we knew
Had lived as long as my heart holds you.

Time has taken almost everything,
My love, my hope, and my joy.
Yet somehow it could never steal
The way your memory makes me feel.

So if tomorrow asks what love once meant,
I'll answer with a silent testament.
Some stories end, some hearts move on.
Mine simply learned that missing you
Is another way of proving
How precious you will always be to me.