2016

I haven't seen your face
Since 2016
I hear you every day
Telling me to keep my hands clean

But soap can't wash away
The stain you left the year you rose
And then receded
And masks can't hide your face
On Halloween when ghosts are more than just kids in a bedsheet

It's too late to try now
Tonight you're flying out
No more crying now
You made your mind how
Your name beside me
Always reminds me
Hold on to memories
Like knives inside me

Your cries echo
In rye I let go
Take what I can't throw
And fall through tomorrow

I haven't seen your face
Since 2016
I hear you every day
Telling me to keep my hands clean