you were barely a whisper but I heard you like thunder
a name I never said aloud still echoes in my chest
they’ll call you a dream but you felt more like a sunrise— real, rising, already changing me
I made space for you between heartbeats wrote stories in the margins of a life I thought we'd share
now the silence grows teeth and I let it because fighting it means letting go
and I’m not ready not yet
you were never mine to keep but for a moment you were mine to love
and I did I do








