NORTH LET GO

All I’d Done Was Come Undone

<sup><sub>You showed up. Not with words, with just a coat,
A bag and with a look that cracked my chest.
You didn’t flinch. You stayed. You stayed afloat
While I sank through the dark, a failing guest.
You fixed the wrecks I made – the broken car,
The lies, the silence soaked in shaky breath – 
And still we went for coffee, windows down
Like all the wreckage couldn’t touch us now.

We’ve sung to Whitney driving through the years,
Laughed through tears you never forced me to name.
You’ve seen me done – crushed, cruel, drowning in fear – 
And never once have you looked at me ashamed.
I’m sober now because you didn’t run.
You stayed when all I’d done was come undone.</sub></sup>