Promise

[Verse 1]
I wrote your name in fading ink,
on pages time refused to keep.
A whisper lost between the lines,
a promise buried deep.

[Verse 2]
You said you'd come, you said you'd stay,
but silence took your place.
I waited by the windowpane,
still dreaming of your face.

[Verse 3]
Promise—like a letter never sent,
like a word that never meant
what I thought it did.
I held it close, I let it live,
but it was never real to give.

Promise—like a shadow in the rain,
soft and sweet, but full of pain.
I believed in you,
but you were just
a promise passing through.

[Bridge]
The candle burned, the night grew cold,
I kept your memory bold.
But every dawn without your voice
just made the silence old.

[Verse 4]
If I could write you one more time,
I’d send a song instead of rhyme.
But would you hear it in the wind,
or let it fade again?