Someone I Can’t Name

Someone I Can’t Name

I see him in the quiet of my mind

In between the noise, he’s where I hide

He’s not mine and never was to keep

But still, he’s in the heart I wear so deep

He doesn’t know the poems that I write

Or how I whisper to him late at night

Can’t hold his hand when people stare

But still, I feel him everywhere

And no one knows the way he smiled

The calm he gave, the storm he styled

He’s not a headline, not a name

But oh, he sets my soul aflame

He’s someone I can’t name in the daylight

But he lives in every dream I hold tight

Maybe we’ll meet, or maybe we won’t

Maybe we’ll love, or maybe we don’t

But he’s carved in a corner of my soul

The sweetest secret I’ll ever know

I never got to wear his last name

But my heart knows it just the same

We don’t take pictures, we don’t write vows

But I still feel him here and now

He’s not a chapter that I can close

Not just a ghost that memory chose

He's the comfort in my favorite song

Even if he’s been gone all along

And I can’t tell the world his face

But I remember every trace

He was never mine to own

Yet I never felt alone

He’s someone I can’t name in the daylight

But he lives in every dream I hold tight

Maybe we’ll meet, or maybe we won’t

Maybe we’ll love, or maybe we don’t

But he’s carved in a corner of my soul

The sweetest secret I’ll ever know

Call it foolish, call it fate

Some hearts never calculate

He didn’t stay, but didn’t leave

He’s the breath I always breathe

He’s someone I can’t name in the daylight

But he’s the spark that makes my dark light

Maybe we’re stars that never align

But he’ll forever be quietly mine

And he’s carved in a corner of my soul

The sweetest secret I’ll ever hold

He’s someone I can’t name...

But I love him all the same.