House without doors

We don’t talk, we just rotate

Through the noise of another day

Smiles we wear like hand-me-downs

Too faded now to mean a thing

The kids are laughing down the hall

But I can’t hear them through these walls

Built of silence, brick by brick

And love we lost but still pretend

This house is full but I feel alone

Breathing in air that’s turned to stone

You’re a shadow I once adored

Now we’re ghosts behind a bedroom door

We stay for them, but we both know

This ain’t living, it’s just the show

Dinner plates and empty chairs

Conversations stripped and bare

Touch you now but feel the chill

Of someone who’s already gone

I dream of leaving, just to breathe

But guilt’s a chain I drag with me

They deserve a happy home

But what if this ain’t it at all?

This house is full but I feel alone

Breathing in air that’s turned to stone

You’re a shadow I once adored

Now we’re ghosts behind a bedroom door

The echo of what used to be

Rings louder than your voice to me

One day they’ll ask what love is for

I hope they find more than we endured