Lost and Found

The path I knew has faded far, A stranger now am I, Beneath a cold and distant star, I watch the moments fly. A whispered name, carried on a wind that remembers more than I do. The familiar scent of rain, now a forgotten melody in a silent song. Fragments of laughter, once so clear, now just echoes in an empty room. Where gentle whispers used to call, A silence deep now lies, Beyond the reach of memory's thrall, Beneath indifferent skies. The map crumbled to dust in my trembling hand. Each landmark, a ghost of what it was. I trace the lines of a life unlived, a story untold, feeling the vast, cold space where belonging used to be. Yet in this void, a flicker gleams, A hope I can't deny, Through fading light and broken dreams, A new way I might try.