"The Things I Never Said"

1.

I never told you how your absence felt like winter,

how silence carved wounds deeper than words ever could.

2.

I never said I still reach for you in my sleep,

that I wake up clutching the air where you used to be.

3.

I should have begged you to stay.

I should have asked if you were breaking too.

4.

But I let you walk away,

and now I live with echoes-

of a love that never shattered,

but still slipped through my hands,

like sand,

like breath,

like something too heavy to hold,

but too sacred to let go.