The Echo of an Empty Room
A single echo rings across the empty room
It twines with dust and hangs in patient gloom
The window keeps the last of dwindling light
And folds the steady edges into night
The clock keeps counsel with a muted lock
Counting hollow seconds like a slow, small knock
A chair remembers footsteps that are gone
While curtains watch the slow return of dawn
I leave a whisper where the memories came
It answers back, a softened shape of my name
The empty room exalts its muted tune
And carries silence like a tide at noon