A Playlist for Sleepless Nights: A Bittersweet Drive 🌛🌃🚘

The songs I listened to while gripping the steering wheel that night still linger in my ears.
The neon lights along the highway faded away behind me like a flowing stream,
and the lights reflected in the rearview mirror blurred with my tears.
In truth, there is no one sitting in the passenger seat anymore.

She left so suddenly.
Without giving a reason, she just left behind a simple "I'm sorry."
Even that voice was lost in the music playing from the car stereo,
fading away as vaguely as a dream.

🎶 A drive along the coast at night.
The synth sounds and the rhythm of the waves overlap, where the past and present intersect.
Spreading out before me are countless taillights.
The future we chased together back then has, before I knew it, split into separate lanes.

"I can't go back, can I?"
The moment I whispered that, my chest tightened.
Even so, I press down on the accelerator, if only to outrun the nights I spent with her with speed.

Leaving the city, I enter a pitch-black road along the coast.
Through the windshield, the moon blurs and merges with the droplets of my tears.
The lost love will never return.
The sound of the waves gently wraps around the night.
It is not music to help me forget, but music to help me live with the memories.

Instead of "goodbye,"
I wish I could have said "thank you."
But words are always too late, and all that remains in the hands gripping the wheel is regret.

Neon, rain, and a nostalgic melody playing on the radio.
Even though each one pierces my heart, why are they so beautiful?
The love has ended, but the night still goes on.
And I continue to drive, as if searching for something.

🌌
As I gaze at the lights of the city fading into the distance,

—I still feel like you are sitting in the passenger seat, just like that day.