It started on a Thursday night
Warm wine, soft light
You swore the sky looked different when I held you tight
We traced our futures on the window in the rain
Laughing like we never learned the meaning of pain

And I said
Promise me the truth even when it burns
You smile back, you're the only one I'll never unlearn
I should have known right then what forever really meant
A word tossed in the breeze gone before it ever lands

But I believed you like scripture written in gold
Didn't know loving you meant losing parts of my soul

Now midnight keeps your name inside
It's mouth whispers it slow till the stars burn out
I keep trying to forget what we became
But every hour sounds exactly the same

You said love was something you'd never betrayed
Funny how you left without looking my way
Now midnight keeps your name
And I'm the ghost who still answers

We danced in the kitchen too small for our dreams
Stealing kisses between half finished plans and routine
You talked about summers we'd spend on hidden coast
I believed every word more than I believed in ghosts

But then nights grew colder long before the fall
You were there I my way photos but nowhere at all
I keep stitching ribs and kept tearing apart
You held my body close but you never held my heart

I learned silence can scream louder than any fight
And goodbye sometimes leaves without saying it's goodnight

Now midnight keeps your name inside
It's mouth repeated it until all my hope runs out
I tried drowning the memories we made
But they refuse to sink, refused to fade

You swore we were something you'd always defend
Funny how you walked when the fire needed men
Now midnight keeps your name
And I'm the ache that won't vanish

My friend said your promises always came cheap
That the things you buried would rise from the deep
But I defended you like a kingdom under siege
Didn't know I was fighting shadows you'd already released

You changed your tone like seasons out of place
Warming the message, ice cold to my face
I stayed hoping time would fix what you broke
But love can't breathe where the truth is soaked in smoke

And I realized I was loving a version of you that never existed
Not the one who withdrew

Now midnight keeps your name inside
It's mouth sings it in a lullaby too sweet, too loud
I keep begging the Moon to rewrite the scene
But the real plays on like a haunting routine

You said I was someone you'd never let go
Funny how you loosened your grip so slow
Now midnight keeps your name
And I'm the chapter you skipped

I walk past the places where our shadows once met
The bench by the river still holds your silhouette
I try to outrun the months you stain
But every street corner still echoes your name

And I tell myself healing is a stubborn friend
But forgetting you feels like an endless end
And maybe you never meant stay forever
Maybe we were borrowed hearts pretending to tether
But I still curse the stars for letting me fall
For a boy who couldn't love me at all

You were poetry I learned too young
A song that hurt every time it was sung
I keep burning letters I never sent
Still your ghost reads every cinnamon

Now I'm leaning how to abandon without shaking
How to live a life that's mine for the making
Your memory knocks
But I don't know let it in
Guess even broken hearts can quietly win

I found pieces of myself hidden under the pain
Pick them up slowly in the cold autumn rain
I'll admit sometimes I still whisper your name
But only to prove I don't feel the same
Cause loving you taught me who I won't be again
And losing you taught me how my story begins

Now midnight keeps your name inside
It's mouth but it no longer hurts when it echoes out
I'm rewriting the ending you tried to claim painting over every bruise you became

You said I'd never survive once you walked away
Funny how I'm brighter than you brightest day
Now midnight keeps your name
But I no longer answer

So here's to the nights that carve me anew
To the scars that shimmer in silver and blue
You were a storm I learned to outlive
A lesson the universe chose to give

And if midnight whispers you back into view
I'll let it speak but it won't undo the girl who grew stronger after losing you