If Love Could Keep You

They folded your hands like you were sleeping, Like I could call you back by name. But the room had already gone distant, Like it forgot my face. Your hair still held the sunlight From the drive we took that day. I replay the smallest Moments Like they could change fate. If love could keep you breathing, You would still be here with me. No grave could hold what we had built. No silence could defeat. I would have traded every tomorrow, Every dream I never knew. The only heaven I ever searched Was lying next to you. Your Coffee cup's still in the cabinet. I can't move it from its place. Grief doesn't shout or tremble. It super stays. I reach across the mattress In the middle of the night. My hand finds only cold Where you once held me tight. If it love to keep you breathing, I wouldn't stand alone. I carry you in every step Like metal in my Bones. And my last breath leaves me, When this weary heart is through, The first light heaven shows me Will be me Running back to You.