Burning For The Way We Were

Burning For The Way We Were

Your old photograph still waits

Inside the drawer beside my bed

A frozen smile from better days

Before our love collapsed and bled

Sometimes I hold it through the night

Tracing outlines of your face

Trying to return inside

That vanished time and sacred place

We laughed without the weight of doubt

Dreamed like nothing could decay

Now strangers walk where lovers stood

And everything has slipped away

I’m still burning for the way we were

For nights that felt untouched by pain

For mornings waking in your arms

Before heartbreak learned my name

Songs we loved still haunt the radio

Each lyric cuts a little deep

Memories refuse to leave me

They follow even into sleep

Maybe love does not die fully

Maybe it remains somewhere

Lingering inside the silence

Floating softly through the air

You moved on toward another life

I stayed trapped inside the past

Holding ashes of forever

Praying somehow it would last

Still the fire inside my chest

Glows beneath each lonely word

I’m still burning for the way we were

And all the beauty we once shared

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