I'M Crying

I hide my tears behind a screen,
Pretend I sleep, pretend I dream.
But every night it floods again,
Your name, your face, the never-when.

They say, “Be strong,” I fake a nod,
But strength won’t bring you back, my God.
I laugh at jokes I never hear —
I’m just surviving year to year.

I’m crying — but no one sees,
Drowning in the quiet, on my knees.
You’re gone, and I’m still breaking slow,
Smiling for a world that doesn’t know.
I scream your name in silent rooms,
Where love still hangs like faded perfume.
I’m crying — but it’s all inside,
Bleeding where the shadows hide.

I walk the streets we used to share,
Now every corner pulls your stare.
Your laugh still echoes in my mind,
A cruel, kind ghost I cannot find.

I talk to walls, I talk to smoke,
Wearing every word you spoke.
And every day I wear this mask,
A haunted man behind the glass.

I’m crying — but no one sees,
Drowning in the quiet, on my knees.
You’re gone, and I’m still breaking slow,
Smiling for a world that doesn’t know.
I scream your name in silent rooms,
Where love still hangs like faded perfume.
I’m crying — but it’s all inside,
Bleeding where the shadows hide.

They say “move on,”
But how do you leave
Someone
Who never really left?

I’m crying — not in tears you trace,
But in the silence of your place.
You’re gone, I know, and yet I stay,
A ghost that never fades away.
I’m crying — and that’s my truth,
A quiet grief that sings for you.