fading echoes

A year has passed since you said "l love you" and I said "Stay" The rooms we once brought to life are now just an empty space And contained within the walls The echoes of our laughter Get lost inside the haze A year has flown since you chose your fears over us The lock with our names watches the seasons change So innocent, awaiting for us to return to that place Watching the snow paint white the City of Lights A year has slipped away, in dreams you hold me closely Polaroids fade, memories disappear slowly Your letters gather dust behind closed doors And the ones I never sent meet the fire, not your soul Candles burned, pages turned In oceans of ink our story unfolds All's fair in love and poetry and in our heart-shaped necklace rust begins to rove the places once adorned with gold