She Was Never Mine
Velvet Shadow
I saw you in the quiet light
Standing where the shadows breathe
You never knew I stayed awake
Just to feel you next to me
Your eyes were always somewhere else
A place I could not reach
I learned your face by memory
A language I don't speak
Every word I never said
Still burns inside my chest
I loved you in the silence
Where love is never blessed
She was never mine
But she lives inside my heart
Like a dream that fades at sunrise
Like a wound that feels like art
She was never mine
But I still call out her name
In a room full of strangers
In a city full of rain
Your hand was close to touching mine
But worlds were in between
I traced your shadow on the wall
Where you've never been with me
You smiled like nothing was wrong
Like nothing was at stake
While I was breaking slowly
With every breath I take
Every night I wait for you
That never comes at all
I built a life around a ghost
That never had to fall
She was never mine
But she lives inside my heart
Like a dream that fades at sunrise
Like a wound that feels like art
She was never mine
But I still feel her skin
In the space where she once stood
In the silence she left in
If love is just a moment
Then you were mine somehow
In every empty heartbeat
In every quiet now
I carry you in memory
Where you don't have to leave
Where longing feels like breathing
And pain feels like relief
She was never mine
But she owns my every thought
In the way I miss her smile
In the love I never fought
She was never mine
But she never let me go
Now I live inside a feeling
That she'll never know
She was never mine
She was never mine
But she was everything
I never had in time
She was never mine
She was never mine
Just a beautiful illusion
That learned how to feel like mine