Almost Us

Mm…

Yeah…

We were close.

I still know the sound of your breathing

When the room was barely awake.

You’d talk like the future was waiting,

But we never let it stay.

I held you like something borrowed,

Like time was counting us down.

Every moment felt fragile,

Like love that wasn’t allowed.

You’d say, “We’re fine, don’t overthink,”

But I felt the ending in between.

We were almost us, almost real,

Almost something I could feel.

You were mine in the quiet hours,

Then gone when the morning came.

We were almost us, almost there,

Said forever but we never dared.

I still love you in ways I don’t show,

In places you’ll never know.

Mm-mm…

Almost.

I see your name in passing moments,

In songs I don’t finish now.

Every word you never promised

Still finds a way back around.

You looked at me like you meant it,

But your heart was somewhere else.

I don’t blame you for leaving,

I blame myself for hoping it’d help.

You said, “Love shouldn’t hurt this way,”

But we let it anyway.

We were almost us, almost true,

Almost everything I wanted from you.

You felt safe in the dead of night,

Then distant by the light of day.

We were almost us, almost right,

Held together by maybes and time.

I still miss you more than I should,

Even knowing we never could.

If I could rewind the space between us,

I wouldn’t ask for more.

I’d just stay a little longer

At the edge of what we were.

We were almost us, that’s the truth,

Not enough to hold, enough to bruise.

You were love without a name,

A memory that still remains.

If you ever wonder where I went,

I’m still here with what we meant.

We weren’t meant to last, I guess—

Just meant to feel like this.

Mm…

Almost us.