What happened to us

What happened to us?

We used to talk till the streetlights gave up

voices running into the small hours

now I can’t find you in the silence

it’s too wide, too cold

I think of your hand on mine

how it felt like it would never let go

now it’s just the memory

holding me instead

It didn’t break with a bang

it just slipped away

like the last light in a room

nobody wants to leave

but somehow does

Your eyes don’t look for me now

they pass straight through

like I was never there

and I wonder if you see

the wreckage you left behind

Just go back to how it felt

before your affair

and I’ll pretend I don’t know

I’d give every day we’ve got left

to go back to that first night

before the distance

before the soft lies

before love turned into something

we barely recognise