stay choose me

I watch the sunset paint the sky, but all I see is your goodbye. A fading light, a closing door, a love I ache for, nothing more. Your laughter lingers in the air, a ghost of warmth that isn't there. I reach, I plead, but still, you go, leaving me with words unsaid, unknown. Did you ever see the way I shined when your eyes met mine, just for a time? Did you ever hear my heart’s soft plea, whispering, stay… choose me? I’d trace your dreams with steady hands, build you a world where love still stands. But love alone can’t make you stay— you turn to leave, and I fade away. Yet if you ever feel the cold, if loneliness should take its hold, just turn around, you’ll always see— I never left. I still believe.