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🎵 The House That Remembers Me – Lalu Metev

[Verse 1]
The key turned slowly in the old lock,
and the night fell quiet at the door.
Inside, the air still smelled of timber,
thyme, cold ashes, summers gone before.
On the walls were shadows waiting,
shadows that had never learned to leave.
And I came back after all those years
just to see if memory still believed.

[Pre-Chorus]
And somewhere down below me
the river moved across the stone,
as if time already knew the road
and had been waiting here alone.

[Chorus]
This house remembers me,
though I forgot the way.
It kept my footsteps hidden
through the long and silent days.
This house remembers me,
like a voice that won"t fade away.
And I knew when I came back home:
not everything is lost to yesterday.

[Verse 2]
There was still the old glass on the table,
and a mark where someone"s hand had been.
Someone had left a little silence
where there used to be a world of laughter in.
I opened up the window slowly.
The night came in without a sound.
And for a moment I could feel it —
not a person, but a love still hanging "round.

[Pre-Chorus]
And somewhere down below me
the river sang the same refrain.
It never asked us where we"d gone —
it only knew our truest names.

[Chorus]
This house remembers me,
though I forgot the way.
It kept my footsteps hidden
through the long and silent days.
This house remembers me,
like a voice that won"t fade away.
And I knew when I came back home:
not everything is lost to yesterday.

[Bridge – spoken / intimate]
Maybe home
isn"t the place you leave behind.
Maybe it"s the thing
that never leaves you.
A doorway.
A scent.
A river moving through the dark.
And someone you loved
long enough
for time itself
to lose the right
to take them away.

[Final Chorus]
This house remembers me,
and now I remember too.
Every board beneath my footsteps,
every shadow in the room.
This house remembers me,
and it never asked me why.
It only let the evening light
fall softly across the doorway.
And I knew...
after all these years —
some places don"t wait for us.
They keep us.

[Outro]
And somewhere down below me
the river moved across the stone.
The night was still the same.
Only I had changed.

Lalu Metev, September 2, 2026.

I begin in the threshold where a word is not yet born and silence still remembers its breath. I write to shape what insists on being carried forward — not as ornament, but as revealed truth. My practice moves like inner weather: shifts of memory, tenderness, and the questions that refuse to leave us. Genres are rooms of one house — poems, essays, fragments, genealogies, musical sketches — each a voice in a single resonant chord. Even silence has its essential place in that chord. I attend to the small gestures that disclose identity; to the secret bridges between private life and collective memory; to the quiet architecture of the spirit that needs no ceremony. My aim is language that opens rather than decorates — windows through which readers encounter their own inner sky. Form, conscience and intimacy guide me: introspection keeps me honest; conceptual shape grants the invisible weight; moral sensibility anchors each phrase. My professions — poet, publicist, jurist — lean together: law sharpens clarity, poetry humbles certainty, philosophy teaches listening to what is unsaid. If a single thread unites my work, it is this: to transmute vulnerability into luminous strength and to make silence a place of meaning. I am Lalu Metev — Bulgarian poet, essayist and jurist. I write to preserve what is delicate and essential in the human spirit, to follow traces of memory and dignity, and to find where the personal meets the universal. This is the path I walk; this is the voice I follow; this is the presence I offer.