I look for you in the breeze that sighs,
In silent corners where starlight lies.
Through whispered echoes and moonlit seas,
I chase the ghost of what could be...


You breathe inside the spaces I forget,
In coffee steam and cigarette regret.
Your name floats in a stranger’s smile,
In every pause, I walk a mile.

Is it love if it’s always missed?
Or just a dream the dark has kissed?
You're the ache in a song unsung,
A thought that lingers on the tongue.


Trace the steps I never took,
Pages torn from an unfinished book.
You’re the shadow in the sun’s embrace,
A fading kiss I still chase…


Are you real, or a beautiful lie?
A hush in the storm, or the tears I cry?
I’m reaching through time, but I touch thin air,
Calling your name — are you ever there?

Are you real, or the echo I feel?
A truth I knew, or a wound that won’t heal?
You live in the lines I can't define —
Between the beats, beneath the sign...


Your silence speaks in poetry unknown,
In midnight rains when I'm alone.
You were a future I tried to write,
Now you're a star I lost to night.

You're the sigh behind a closed door,
The ‘almost’ I can't ignore.
A flicker, a whisper, a half-drawn face —
Still holding me in your vacant place.


If I could bleed you into verse,
Unravel every gentle curse,
I'd find the truth in this cruel delay —
Were you ever mine, or just my way?


Are you real, or a beautiful lie?
A hush in the storm, or the tears I cry?
I’m reaching through time, but I touch thin air,
Calling your name — are you ever there?

Are you real, or the echo I feel?
A truth I knew, or a wound that won’t heal?
You live in the lines I can't define —
Between the beats, beneath the sign...


Tell me gently, before I fall —
Were you ever here… or not at all?

Are You Real?

Written and composed by: Dreamscape melodies [thesilentyearning]