She kissed him like a memory
I somehow couldn’t shake,
Like I’d lived a life beside her
In a dream I couldn’t wake.
Her laughter traced a history
I never got to know,
Yet it echoed in my chest
Like a place I used to go.
She leaned into his shoulder
Like it fit her perfectly,
And something deep inside me broke
At what could never be.
I never held her hand,
Never felt her skin on mine,
But I swear I felt her absence
Like I lost her over time.
They say you can’t miss something
That you never really had,
But my heart don’t speak in logic
It just knows it’s feeling bad.
It aches in quiet corners,
In the spaces she’s not there,
Like a ghost of something almost
Lingering in empty air.
Phantom pain, they call it
But it feels too real to fake,
Like a love that never happened
Still somehow left a break.
She was never mine to lose,
Still I grieve like she was mine,
Haunted by a “what if”
That rewinds me every time.