You Took the Pause with You

You left before the words were done
The quiet hit like loaded sun
I tried to speak but caught your pace
And watched you walk without a trace
You took the pause with you, not loud
But still enough to break the cloud
The breath I held became the space
Where all your silence took its place
My questions sat in folded hands
Your absence drew its final plans
I didn’t cry, I didn’t plead
But in the hush, I felt the bleed
You didn’t wait to hear what stayed
Between the words we never made