If Only

Stay awhile, just be

Keep me company

Silently

I should let you go

You can’t stay

Just for me

If I could freeze time

I’d hold you here

Let you be

A part of me

You’ve done your time

I’ve given you mine

Still

I just wish

Pray, hope

An inch of scope

You are gone now

Empty room

Vacant spaces

Coffee cup stains

Sweep up dust

Scrub the counters

Pick up crumbs

Stop

Doors open and close behind

Muffled echoes I can hear

Just yesterday

You were here

You had to go

I understand

If only…

If only…

You’ll never know