A Song We Never Sang

There were words we never said

Left behind at hope’s edge

We were too close to be bold

But too far to unfold

Your eyes spoke without sound

But I pretended not to hear

We sat between all the maybes

Then left, carrying silence near

This is a song we never sang

A melody that lived inside our chest

A story that never turned to memory

Yet still, I can't forget the rest

We were never wrong

Just arrived when time was torn

Love never turned into a word

But the ache still feels so strong

I still remember how you smiled

As if anything could be

But the sky turned dark too quickly

And we didn’t get to flee

One message never sent

One hug that never came

Like a melody left hanging

That never became love's name

This is a song we never sang

Too afraid to even start

Though we both knew the truth

Silence felt safer for the heart

We were never lovers

Yet it felt like losing another

We weren’t broken pieces

Because we never fit together

Maybe in another world, we dared

Maybe in another time, we cared

But here, there's only

Your shadow, I never got to hold

We passed by like strangers

Like a missing line in poetry

There was never a beginning

Yet the end still hurts deeply

This is a song we never sang

But its tune still lingers in me

Though no lyrics were ever written

You were once my melody

I don’t regret loving you in silence

Even if you never knew

Because true love sometimes…

Chooses not to bloom