Chelsea

There was a room I almost knew
Before the light had settled in
Curtains breathing without wind
Something moving
Just beneath

You were there
Or almost

Chelsea

Not in a way I could hold
More like something
The air remembered

Names fall softer now
Into corners of a voice
I never used

Yours stayed longer
Than it should
Than I could

And the days went sideways
Like they never meant to stay
Every moment leaning somewhere
But forgetting where

Chelsea

Stay where the light
Almost holds
Something was there
Before it was told

Not here
Not gone

Just

There was a road without an end
Only turning into same
Footsteps folding into silence
Every echo without a name

I walked it like I knew it
Like I’d been there all along

But something in the distance
Was already gone

Chelsea don’t follow the sound

It’s already
Turning around

Half of a name
Half of a breath

Falling apart
Before it’s said

In the almost
In between

You were closer
Than you seemed

Not beside
Not apart

Just

There

Chelsea
Chelsea
Chelsea
Chelsea
Chelsea

In the space
It forgot
Chelsea

Something was
Something not

Night not falling

Just
Less