SHE LEFT A POEM
"She Left a Poem"
Soulful Pop Ballad – Radio-Ready Version
By David Wayne Wood
[Verse 1 – Soft piano, intimate vocal]
She said it was just a poem—
left trembling on the windowsill,
ink still wet, like tears she never cried.
The sun was falling fast behind her,
her silhouette too far to feel...
and I knew I’d just watched her say goodbye.
[Pre-Chorus – Strings enter gently, slight lift]
The lake just stared,
pulling sweet memories down.
Now all I hold
are echoes that won’t drown...
[Chorus – Soaring vocal, full strings, light percussion]
She left a poem... then disappeared—
no goodbye, just her fear
folded in a page she couldn’t read aloud.
The champagne stayed sealed,
the glasses ran dry,
and I’ve been drinking a thousand “whys.”
She left a poem... and left me behind.
[Verse 2 – Emotional build, piano + ambient textures]
Her shoes were still beside the doorway,
her scent asleep in cotton sheets.
She wrote of stars that never made it home.
Each line felt like a gentle warning,
like love that learned to walk on knees...
And now I sleep beside a dial tone.
[Pre-Chorus – Variation with rising tension]
The clock just ticks,
a metronome for pain.
I read her words,
but can’t erase my name...
[Chorus – Stronger vocal, layered harmonies]
She left a poem... then disappeared—
no goodbye, just her fear
folded in a page she couldn’t read aloud.
The champagne stayed sealed,
the glasses ran dry,
and I’ve been drinking a thousand “whys.”
She left a poem... and left me behind.
[Bridge – Stripped back, falsetto or soft vocal]
Was I just the draft she tried to burn?
A chapter she could never turn?
Now every line she left behind
keeps rewriting my goodbye...
[Final Chorus – Full instrumentation, emotional climax]
She left a poem... still echoing,
a silent song with shattered wings.
I hold her words like they could bring her back somehow.
But pages fade, and ink will run,
and I’m still chasing setting suns.
She left a poem...
but I’m the one who’s breaking now.
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