The Things You'll Never Know

I reach for my phone,

Not because it rings

But because my heart

Still hopes it will.

My fingers pause above your name,

Wanting to call...

Yet silence always

Finds me first.

I open our chat,

Searching for words

That never leave my heart

And never reach your screen.

Sometimes I open my camera,

Smiling at nothing...

Wondering how many little moments

I wished I could have shared with you.

I wanted ordinary things,

The kind no one writes poems about.

To walk beside you

Without rushing anywhere.

To stand beneath one umbrella

While the rain forgot the world around us.

To share a roasted corn

Near the sound of falling water,

Laughing over nothing,

Remembering everything.

Every movie I watch

Borrows your face.

Every love story

Quietly becomes ours

Only inside my imagination.

You never knew.

Perhaps you never will.

Because I always take one step back

When my heart wants to run toward you.

I read every message twice

Before deciding not to send it.

I choose silence

Over the possibility

Of becoming a burden.

I never call.

I never confess.

I never tell you

How loudly your absence

Echoes inside me.

Maybe some feelings

Are not meant to be spoken.

Maybe they are meant

To live quietly,

Between unsent messages,

Unmade calls,

And dreams

That wake up before they come true.

I know

You may never call my name.

I know

Your message may never arrive.

I know

Our story may never be written.

Yet if my heart

Could have just one impossible wish...

It would never ask

For forever.

It would simply ask

For one moment

To hold your hand,To look into your eyes,

And to let you know...

You were loved

In a thousand silent ways

You never noticed.