I'm only a phone call away

There's a ledge
with your name carved into it
I watch as you look back at me
before you step into the free fall
knowing where you're going
I can't follow

It doesn't matter that my name
is etched into the stone history of us
it doesn't matter that I understand
how easy it is to fall into the abyss
it doesn't matter that I tried
to pave a different road for you
with all the blood my soul had to spare
sometimes fate finds us and binds us
and when we wake up like death
lingering at the bottom of the ocean
we know there could have been
no other path but this

There's a ledge
with your name carved into it
I watch as you fall in slow motion
this moment infinite
and impermanent

I would reach for you
but you're already gone
where you're going
we both know
I can't follow

I lay a rope at the edge of the cliff
and pray you won't use it to hang yourself
with all the beauty still waiting for you
on this side