When You Left

your coat waits quietly on the hook  

the last piece of you I still know  

left behind between walls you fled  

like a ghost abandoning its old haunt  

you disappeared like a steady flame  

snuffed out before it knew its end  

brave the world calls your escape now  

but I name it silence you did not break  

the floorboards creak where you lingered once  

friends ask where your footprints have gone  

another city another life another dream  

what did you find that I could not be  

sometimes I wonder if you still carry  

the scent of my touch in your skin  

or if the stars swallowed you whole then  

leaving my memory out in the cold