Under lamplight, shadows dance
Moments pause in second glance
Every breath a quiet plea
Traces of you still in me
Curtains sway, the night inhales
All our words in paper trails
Even silence hums your part
Pressed between my beating heart
Just a flicker, not a flame
Still enough to speak your name
Though we’re strangers in the rain
Your memory won't fade away
Soft as candle in the wind
Still you glow from deep within
Though the night forgets to call
You still shimmer through it all
Coffee rings and folded notes
Things we said in whispered quotes
The silence in between the laughs
Still echoes through my aftermath
Glances that we didn’t hold
Now return when nights grow cold
Even if the light grew dim
You still burn at every rim
Little things we used to share
Linger gently in the air
Every step that I retrace
Leads me back to your embrace
Just a flicker, not a flame
Still enough to speak your name
Though we’re strangers in the rain
Your memory won't fade away
Like a match that’s struck then gone
Still the warmth remains till dawn
You were brief, but left a mark
Etched in every inch of dark
If time could rewind its way
I’d hold your hand another day
But even in this solitude
I find a spark of quiet truth
Not all loves are meant to stay
Some just light and float away
Just a flicker, not a flame
Still enough to speak your name
Though we’re strangers in the rain
Your memory won't fade away
Even if we meet no more
You’re the light I’m looking for
Not in fire, but in glow
Where the lost things softly go