The City Forgot My Name

Same streets different story / Corner café where we laughed for hours / Tables arranged like untouched flowers / Barista smiles but searches my face / Like I’m a stranger passing through this place / Windows remember the rain we saw / Taxi headlights across the floor / But every doorway feels rearranged / As if the city quietly changed / Every turn feels familiar somehow / But nobody knows me now / This city forgot my name / Every doorway feels the same / All the laughter we once knew / Vanished like a passing tune / I wander roads we used to claim / But nothing calls me back again / Same buildings standing proud and tall / But I’m nobody here at all / Old bookstore where we hid from rain / Stacks of novels still remain / Someone browsing where we sat / Like we were never part of that / Friends I pass with hurried eyes / Small polite and distant smiles / Conversations thin and brief / Like echoes fading out of reach / I thought these streets would keep a trace / Maybe the change was inside me / Maybe I drifted too far away / Places remember the people who stay / And I became someone passing one day / This city forgot my name / Every memory feels untamed / All the stories we once wrote / Float away like paper boats / I walk the roads we used to claim / But nothing calls me back again / The past stands tall in brick and stone / But I am walking it alone / Same streets / But I’m unknown