Hollow Staccato

They told me silence keeps you whole
But mine broke
Note by note
Each sound you left became a hole
Each rest a wound, each beat a toll
I play the silence you forgot
A rhythm full of what you're not
You never spoke, but still you stayed
Inside the notes that won't decay
Hollow staccato, sharp and thin
Cutting deeper from within
Every silence screams your name
In tempo's cage, I play the blame
I breathe in rests you never took
Your pulse erased from every hook
Still I compose what's not returned
A song that bleeds but never burned
The louder I play, the more I miss
The space you left is every hit
Hollow staccato, sharp and thin
Cutting deeper from within
Every silence screams your name
In tempo's cage, I play the blame
You were the pause inside the fire
The empty space that won't expire
Hollow!
Staccato!
Echoes shaped like vertigo
Hollow!
Staccato!
Your silence is my shadow
I stopped the song-
But not the sound