Show Me the City so I Can Burn It Down
I packed my life into cardboard boxes that smelled like the place I was leaving dust, cheap detergent memories that didn't want to fold flat
You said the city would be different that it breathed faster that it would teach me how to keep up with a heart like yours
So I followed you past the quiet roads and empty nights into streets that never learned how to sleep where even the silence hums electric
I traded stars for streetlights crickets for sirens the kind of loneliness you can name for one that hides in crowds
And still I would've called it home if you had stayed
I learned the rhythm of strangers how to disappear on a packed train how to look through people the way you started looking through me
Every corner reminds me of something I gave up to be here the way the sky used to open wide the way my name sounded when it wasn't an afterthought
I came here for you for the promise tucked in your voice for the version of us that only existed in motion
But cities don't care why you arrive they just swallow you whole and keep moving
Now I walk these endless streets alone learning how to belong to a place that only knows me as someone who stayed after you didn't