WHAT THE DUST REMEMBERED
I found your words beneath the floor
Pressed between a map and war
Your name was never written down
But I knew the way you sound
You speak like someone lost their light
But kept a candle burning right
And I've been walking ever since
With ash for shoes and consequence
If you're the echo I've been chasing
Then I'm the breath you left behind
If you're the one who wrote these pages
I read them like a lifeline
You never meant to be remembered
But the dust it kept your name
And when I walk where you once waited
It doesn't feel the same
You said don't trust the mirror's face
So I shattered mine and left no trace
I don't know what the light still sees
But I know what it sees in me
Your journal bled through every line
Like someone whispering through time
And if you're listening even now
I'll find you I don't care how
If you're the echo I've been chasing
Then I'm the breath you left behind
If you're the one who wrote these pages
I read them like a lifeline
You never meant to be remembered
But the dust it kept your name
And when I walk where you once waited
It doesn't feel the same
No one stays long in Sector 9
But I'll stay long enough to see the signs