Forgotten Before Goodbye

I drift through the corridors of her memories,

Yet never find a path to her heart.

I glimpse unspoken feelings in her eyes,

But nowhere do I find a place for mine.

I read stories between her words,

I find colors even in the shadows,

Yet every page she writes

Leaves a quiet emptiness where I should have been.

Night after night,

Rain after rain,

The story keeps weaving itself,

Thread by thread,

Into a fate neither of us chose.

Perhaps I was never meant to be the destination,

Only a passing season she would one day forget.

And when my name fades into silence,

The rain will still remember the tears I never let fall.

So if one day I am gone,

Do not search for me among the stars.

I have already become the echo between her memories,

A love that lived quietly,

And disappeared even more quietly.