Crosswalk

Maybe...

I found a photograph today
The colors worn but not erased
A second silhouette remains
Like someone stepping out of frame
The picture doesn't say a thing
No names, no dates, no wedding rings
But something in the way it stayed
Makes me wonder anyway

I don't know who they were
I don't know where they went
I only know
Somebody couldn't forget

A photograph beneath the sun
Two shadows slowly becoming one
A voice that says "remember when"
Then disappears into the end
I don't know who they were
I don't know where they went
I only know
Somebody couldn't forget

A recording ends in laughter
Then silence filling up the space after
An unfinished letter left behind
Like someone ran out of borrowed time
A final word without a name
Still somehow carried through the years
And every piece I turn around
Feels like somebody's still here

I don't know what was said
I don't know what was lost
I only know
Some things survive the cost

A photograph beneath the sun
Two shadows slowly becoming one
A voice that says "remember when"
Then disappears into the end
I don't know who they were
I don't know where they went
I only know
Somebody couldn't forget

Maybe they met in summer
Maybe they drifted with the years
Maybe this voice belonged beside this letter
Maybe that's why they're both still here
Maybe none of that is true

Maybe I've got it all wrong

But somebody hesitated
And somebody held on

The archive kept the record
The record kept the trace
The trace became a story
I can almost see
On somebody's face

I don't know their story
Not really
But for the first time
I think I understand