You Left, I Stayed

We packed our lives in cardboard dreams,

side by side, a roaming team.

Through cities bright and towns unknown,

you were the closest thing to home.

But now the world has split our ways,

you left for school, I stayed, I stayed.

The house is quiet, halls feel wide,

no footsteps echo by my side.

Still, distance bends but does not break,

our bond’s a thread no time can shake.

So I will wait, though days feel long,

till we are laughing, back where we belong.