The clock strikes twelve, the world turns still,
And silence speaks louder than it ever will.
I lay in the dark, but I’m not alone —
My past arrives, soft-voiced and known.
It pulls up a chair, makes itself home,
Wearing old fears like a well-worn cologne.
"Remember that time?" it whispers low,
Unfolding regrets I tried not to show.
We talk of love that didn’t stay,
Of words I lost and should’ve let say.
Of people who vanished without goodbye,
And the version of me I had to let die.
It doesn’t shout, it never blames,
Just calls me gently by old names.
And in its eyes, I sometimes see
A version of who I used to be.
By morning it fades, like smoke in air,
But I feel its weight still sitting there.
Midnight leaves, but not without trace—
It etched my past back into place.

And silence speaks louder than it ever will.
I lay in the dark, but I’m not alone —
My past arrives, soft-voiced and known.
It pulls up a chair, makes itself home,
Wearing old fears like a well-worn cologne.
"Remember that time?" it whispers low,
Unfolding regrets I tried not to show.
We talk of love that didn’t stay,
Of words I lost and should’ve let say.
Of people who vanished without goodbye,
And the version of me I had to let die.
It doesn’t shout, it never blames,
Just calls me gently by old names.
And in its eyes, I sometimes see
A version of who I used to be.
By morning it fades, like smoke in air,
But I feel its weight still sitting there.
Midnight leaves, but not without trace—
It etched my past back into place.
