Waved
The lake doesn't ask questions at night it just breathes slow, enormous like something ancient trying not to wake the world
I walked there to disappear to let the dark take inventory of me and finding nothing worth keeping
Sand sank beneath my feet cold and shifting like it couldn't decide if I belonged
Out here everything comes in waves sound memory the way her name still hits me when I'm not ready
the tide kept reaching like it knew me like it had seen this before another body standing too still another heart trying to outrun itself
I stood where the water almost touched close enough to feel chosen far enough to stay alone
And the moon half-drunk and hanging low spilled silver over everything like it was trying to soften the truth
but nothing softens here not really
Every wave breaks with the same quiet violence arrives whole leaves in pieces
I watched it happen again again again
until I realized that's what I've been doing too
Coming back like I never learned pulling away like I had no choice
The lake doesn't care it just keeps moving kept undoing itself without apology
And me I stayed until the cold climbed into my bones until even the dark felt tired of me
Then I turned left no footprints worth following just another shape this shoreline forgot
Waved like goodbye like something passing through
Like I was never really there at all
