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