Loved You in the Silence”

I loved you in the silence,
In spaces time forgot,
Between the seconds slipping past
That lingered more than not.
I loved you like a steady rain
That falls when no one sees,
A quiet ache, a whispered truth
Carried on a breeze.

I loved you through the glances missed,
The pauses in your laugh,
The way you'd speak of dreams out loud
But never let me draft.
You told the world your future plans,
I nodded, played along—
A friend, a ghost, a shadow cast,
Still hoping I belonged.

I loved you on the train rides home,
When songs began to sting,
When lyrics knew the pain I held
But silence clipped my wings.
I'd stare outside the windowpane
As city lights flew by,
And wonder if you ever knew
The tears I wouldn't cry.

I loved you through your darkest days,
When storms lived in your head,
And though you never saw my hand,
It caught the words you said.
You told me things no one had heard,
And trusted me to stay—
I held your fears like sacred vows,
Then let you walk away.

I loved you in the morning light
When sleep still kissed your face,
Before the world had stained your smile,
Before you picked your pace.
I loved you as you brushed your hair
Or lost yourself in thought,
A thousand little yesterdays
That loving never bought.

I loved you in the empty rooms,
The late-night cups of tea,
The books we read, the jokes we made,
The you that felt like me.
But every time I tried to speak,
My courage turned to dust—
The fear that truth might push you back
Outweighed my fragile trust.

I loved you in the photographs
You never knew I kept,
The snapshots of a fleeting time
That made my silence wept.
The beach, the snow, the crowded street—
You smiled in every one,
And I stood just outside the frame,
A moon beside your sun.

I loved you when you loved someone—
A name I dared not speak.
I clapped for you with shattered hands,
My heart too proud to leak.
You told me that you found your match,
That happiness had come,
And I just said, “I’m happy too,”
While every part went numb.

I loved you in the hallway hush,
Between each open door,
In spaces where you’d once been loud
But now were “nevermore.”
I loved you when you moved away,
When texts grew short and few,
I scrolled through all our memories
And bled in shades of blue.

I loved you through the turning years,
The silence never broke.
I loved you at my best and worst,
And still, I never spoke.
I buried poems deep inside
Where none would dare to tread,
And every night I'd write your name
On pillows, in my head.

I loved you through my healing too,
When slowly, life moved on,
And though I laughed with someone new,
Your echo wasn’t gone.
I found a love that answered back,
A heart that reached for mine,
But still, a part of me held tight
To when you crossed that line.

I loved you in the mirror’s gaze,
In eyes I came to know,
That still would search the crowded world
For seeds we didn’t sow.
The “what ifs” bloom like morning frost,
So fragile, yet so wide—
And every time I look ahead,
You flicker by my side.

I loved you in the letting go,
A process slow and raw,
Like teaching lungs to breathe again
In air they never saw.
I spoke your name beneath the stars
On one forgiving night,
Then closed the book, turned off the lamp,
And walked into the light.

I loved you in the silence,
But silence can betray.
It holds the words that need to live—
Then buries them away.
If I could speak across the years,
One truth I’d leave behind:
I loved you with a quiet soul
But silence isn’t kind.