Yesterday’s Love

Yesterday’s Love

Yesterday’s love walks through my mind.

Like footsteps fading on the sand,

It lingers still in tender echoes,

Of moments warm, of holding hands.

I see your face in windows fogged,

In fleeting shadows, passing eyes,

though the years have tried to dull it,

Your memory never truly dies.

The days we laughed, nights we made love.

They live inside the quiet rain,

Each drop a word we left unspoken,

Each sigh a ghost that calls your name.

The seasons turned but left me waiting,

For something lost that never came,

I learned to walk without you,

The world still feels a shade the same.

Yesterday’s love, you were the reason,

The fire that kept the cold away,

Now I hold embers in my pocket,

To warm my heart from day to day.

I wonder if you sometimes think,

Of all we were, of what we missed,

Of how we said forever softly,

I never knew it would end like this.

Yet even pain has something holy,

In what remains of what we knew,

For yesterday’s love, though long departed,

Still feels so painfully, achingly true.