Crawl

You get close, then pull it back

Like it’s already too much

Something flickers, fades to black

Right before it turns to us

We stay stuck in in-between

Where it almost feels like truth

Every moment cuts too clean

Then dissolves when I reach you

⸻

So I crawl

Back to the edge of your doubt again

I fall

Right through the gaps in the words you send

You push

I stall

But every time you pull away

I

Crawl

Crawl

Crawl back to you

⸻

You write a message, then erase

Blue light dancing on your face

Every secret, every ache

Hiding in what you don’t say

“Maybe I’m too much” — it stays

Hanging heavy in between

You pull back when I don’t chase

Like you wanted me to leave

⸻

So I crawl

Back to the edge of your doubt again

I fall

Right through the gaps in the words you send

You push

I stall

But every time you pull away

I

Crawl

Crawl

Crawl back to you

⸻

If this is all we ever are

Half-light in a borrowed room

I still find you in the dark

Like there’s nothing left to lose

⸻

So I crawl

Back to the edge of your doubt again

I fall

Right through the gaps in the words you send

You push

I stall

But every time you pull away

I

Crawl

Crawl

…crawl back to you