Sediment

I haven't cried in seven weeks

But something in me never sleeps

The air is thick with things unsaid

And memories that sink instead

I try to speak but sound won't form

The syllables dissolve and swarm

It's not regret it's not relief

It's just the weight beneath belief

What's left of us just settled in

Like dust that hides beneath the skin

I'm breathing but it doesn't mean

I feel the world or anything

It didn't leave it didn't stay

It found a place too deep to name

Not love not hate just something grey

That won't dissolve that won't decay

You used to echo through this room

Now silence hums a different tune

I swept the floor but still you stayed

In corners thought had swept away

There's no goodbye no final line

Just sediment in broken time

And when I sleep I feel the press

Of something still not more or less

The weight of us just settled slow

Like mud that swallows what we know

I move through days without a name

A ghost to joy a shadowed flame

It didn't end it just went still

Beneath the pulse beneath the will

Not gone not whole just residue

Of something once too bright to lose