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Unturned pages

Once you lived between the bed covers 
And in the touch so cunningly naive 
In the shallow breaths and faint smiles
You lived hidden in me in the plain sight

In the songs
And the colors we picked 
You lived hidden in me 
Through all the unwarranted nights 

But now you live in my unspoken words 
In every skipping beat of the heart 
Not in the light and in things of present 
We still live in me buried in the pile of time 

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