Miles away, your voice still drifts like smoke across the lake,
Every echo is a streetlight left on for my sake.
I walk the white lines, counting heartbeats into space,
Your name a quiet pulse in every tire-marked embrace.
Headlights bloom like frost, then die against the glass,
I keep the night on just to watch the shadows pass.
Though distance hums a highway through my ribs and veins,
Your silence is the compass that keeps pulling me home again.