Dear Yesterday (2026)

(Soft vinyl crackle... distant thunder... lonely piano...) Dear Yesterday... If I could write you one last letter... Would you finally write me back? 'Cause I still carry pieces of you... Every single day...

Dear yesterday... I still see your face when the rain come down... Still hear your voice every time I look around... I been chasing tomorrow... But my heart stay behind... Trying to outrun memories... That refuse to die... Dear yesterday... If I could do it all again... I'd hold on longer... Before it had to end... Lord knows... I'm still searching for a little peace today... Dear yesterday...

Dear yesterday... I still remember every crack in the sidewalk... Mama praying in the kitchen... Trying to keep the lights on... Empty refrigerator... But somehow she still smiled... Told me... "Baby... God ain't finished with your life." Never understood it then... Now every blessing got a price... Every dollar got a memory... Every success got sacrifice... Lost partners... Lost brothers... Lost dreams inside the smoke... Sometimes the strongest people... Be the ones that's barely holding hope... If I could rewind... I'd slow the clock... Tell the young homies... Think before they squeeze that Glock... Tell 'em every mother cry... Sound the same at every grave... One decision... One second... Can change the rest of every day...

Dear yesterday... I still see your face when the rain come down... Still hear your voice every time I look around... I been chasing tomorrow... But my heart stay behind... Trying to outrun memories... That refuse to die... Dear yesterday... If I could do it all again... I'd hold on longer... Before it had to end... Lord knows... I'm still searching for a little peace today... Dear yesterday...

Sometimes I drive... With no destination... Just me... The road... And conversation... Talking to the people... That ain't here no more... Looking at Heaven... Wondering... What they waiting for... Still got numbers in my phone... Can't delete 'em... Can't press call... Sometimes I swear... I hear they voices... Echo through the hall... Success don't heal... What the heart still miss... Money don't replace... One goodbye... One hug... One kiss... Everybody love you... When your name start ringing... But they don't know... Success still cry... Behind expensive living... I smile for the cameras... Then cry on the ride home... Funny how a full arena... Still make a man feel alone...

If I knew... That was the last time... I'd never let you walk away... If I knew... Tomorrow wasn't promised... I'd tell you... Everything today... So many words... Never spoken... So many hearts... Still broken...

Dear yesterday... You made me who I am... Every scar... Every tear... Every lesson... Every plan... I ain't angry anymore... I finally understand... Sometimes God... Builds stronger people... Through the things... They never planned... Tell my mama... I'm still praying... Just like she taught me... Tell the homies... We gon' meet again... Where Heaven brought peace... And if tomorrow... Never knows my name... At least I loved... At least I tried... Before the angels came... I stopped asking... "Why me?" Started asking... "What now?" Maybe healing... Don't happen overnight... Maybe healing... Is choosing faith somehow...

Dear yesterday... I finally let you go today... Not because... You stopped hurting... But because... God made another way... Every memory... Still lives inside my soul... Every tear... Helped make me whole... Dear yesterday... Thank you... For making me... The man... I became...

Yesterday... You'll always be part of me... But you don't own tomorrow... God does... (Rain fades... piano... vinyl crackle... silence.)