Someone I Like

SOMEONE I LIKE

I like him,

Not loudly,

Just in the way a song hums beneath the noise of the day,

Soft and steady, never sung aloud,

He laughs like the sunlight,

And I keep my shadow proud.

But you,

My bestfriend,

You speak his name like it's stitched in your heart beat.

You don’t know mine skips too.

You don’t see the way I fold my feelings into silence just to make space for you.

I could tell you,

I could tell him,

But I like you more than I like the dream of being liked back.

So I stay quiet,

Wearing my secret like a locket,

Because love

Sometimes,

Is choosing not to unlock.