Tony Ray Simpson

The Keeper of the Same Sky

You were the first witness to my days,
The one who knew the house, the names, the ways.
A shared language spoken in a glance,
The steady rhythm in our childhood dance.

Half of my history has slipped away,
Into the quiet of this hollow day.
But though the air between us now is still,
I’ll carry all the words you can no longer fill.

I’ll find you in the jokes we used to tell,
In the stories only we both knew so well.
You aren’t just a memory or a name—
You’re the reason I will never be the same.

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