I swallowed my truth to keep you near,
turned the silence into love,
mistook distance for fear.
But love unspoken is love undone.
A rope unthreaded,
A war unwon.
I waited for words that never came,
For you to call me by my name.
But love that lingers in the dark
Was never meant to leave a mark.
Author's Note
We build the deepest wounds in the space between what we feel and what we say. I thought silence could keep us safe, but it only buried us beneath the weight of everything we never admitted.