Just Another Passenger

Coffee cooling in my hand
Outside the glass, a distant land
People laughing, boarding fast
While I replay the past
I check the time but not for me
Just counting what we used to be
A name once called, a seat once saved
Now I'm just someone you gave away

Faces pass in hurried streams
But none of them know what I mean

I'm just another passenger
No one's waiting for
A shadow in a moving blur
Forgotten at the door
You boarded love and I stayed still
Now I don't know what I should feel
Not lost, not found, just in-between
A ghost in every crowded scene

This ticket reads a place and time
But it won't take me back to mine
You left me where the silence grew
Between the gate and losing you
I thought by now I'd feel less small
But maybe that's the cost of fall
To sit where no one says your name
And smile like it's all the same

They call for rows, I watch them go
Still anchored to what I won't show

I'm just another passenger
No arms to fall into
Your voice once felt like home, but now
It's just a quiet truth
I tried to love, I tried to stay
But you were flying anyway
Now I exist in waiting rooms
Where love once meant I'd see you soon

Maybe I was just a seat you took
Until the world gave you a better look
You smiled, I fell and now I see
You left before you boarded me

I'm just another passenger
In a story you outgrew
A name the intercom won't say
A face that never made it through
Still breathing on this plastic chair
Still hoping you might reappear
But all I am, and all I'll be
Is just another passenger to me