The Ash I Breath

[Verse 1]
You left without a sound, not even smoke
Just a silence wide enough to choke
I stitched the wound, I cleaned the blade
Told myself I wouldn’t fade

[Verse 2]
They say you vanished for my sake
But love don’t leave and call it grace
You were fire once, then gone like steam
Now I wake with ghosts inside my seams

[Chorus]
But I still walk, I still heal
I still grind the gears and feel
Your name caught in the copper air
Your shadow sitting in my chair
And if you ever think of me
Think of the woman you let bleed
But wouldn’t die—
Just burned, and stayed
In the ash I breathe

[Verse 3]
The clinic hums, the city groans
I stitch their wounds and mend their bones
But mine don’t close, not where you tore
The part of me you never mourned

[Bridge – quiet, almost whispered]
I don’t cry where they can see
But some nights, you still kneel in me
Not a prayer—
Not a sin—
Just the space you used to live in

[Chorus]
But I still walk, I still heal
I still grind the gears and feel
Your name caught in the copper air
Your shadow sitting in my chair
And if you ever think of me
Think of the woman you let bleed
But wouldn’t die—
Just burned, and stayed
In the ash I breathe

[Outro]
So come back or don’t
Break me or don’t
But I won’t wait where the fire won’t grow
I’ve got hands, I’ve got steel
And I’ve got work that makes me real
Even if the wound stays deep—
I’ll walk through smoke
On my own two feet.

3:50, female, steam punk. Romance