This empty
This abandoned place
in the hidden world
inside my past
where a shadow
lingers
and a song
echoes
is at a distance now
that takes time
to walk back to

But when I do
It comes alive
and the hustle
and the laughter
and all the life of it
returns in waves
and your eyes
grab hold again
and I pretend
and I imagine
what I could say

How are you
and how have you been?
Remember when
we had that day?
When you told a joke
and the rain
poured down
and your smile
lodged in
my poor heart

That was crazy
But I could
and I would have
made it work
Would have been
Could have been
Everything
for you

Until it shifts
out of reach
and the empty
returns like night
and the world
echoes today
without reason
so far away