FADED

DEPTH CHARGE

You were a signal I kept misreading

Warm on the surface, cold at the core

I mapped your silences like I knew the language

Built you a city, then lost the shore

Tell me where you went

Tell me where you went

Was I holding smoke the whole time?

Tell me where you went

Did I dream the whole design?

Down in the dark where the pressure gets heavy

Down where the light dies and no one goes looking

Something is moving beneath what I buried

The wreck of us breathing, still breathing, still breathing

I’m still breathing

Down here, I’m still breathing

These surface-level prayers were never enough

I needed the current, I needed the pull

The silence down here doesn’t ask for anything

Finally hollow, finally full

Tell me where you went

Tell me where you went

All that static in the blue deep

Tell me where you went

I think I wanted to sink

Down in the dark where the pressure gets heavy

Down where the light dies and no one goes looking

Something is moving beneath what I buried

The wreck of us breathing, still breathing, still breathing

I’m still breathing

Down here, I’m still breathing

I stopped calling your name to the ceiling

The ceiling never answers anyway

I went looking for you in the undertow

Found something older, something that stayed

Down in the dark — I stopped being afraid

Down where the light dies — I made it my place

Something is moving, it moved through the grief

The wreck of me breathing

Just breathing

At peace

Still breathing

Still breathing

Down here — I’m still breathing