What Would Happen

What Would Happen

What would happen

if I let the silence go

if I peeled back the skin of my soul

and let you see what lives underneath?

If I dared to speak the sacred

the soft

the splintered truths

that rattle like ghosts in my chest

would you stay?

I think I’d tell you

you’ve saved me

Not once

but again and again

in ways even you don’t know

I’d tell you

your name is the prayer I whisper

when the night gets too heavy

when the future looks too far

I’d tell you

I love you

with a kind of ache

that doesn’t know how to quiet down

I’d say thank you

for every breath you give to the world

for the way your smile

makes it easier to stay here

just one more day

But I hold it in

because I know how fragile

everything is

And I fear if I speak too loud

the spell will break

and you’ll vanish

Still

if I were brave

I’d admit how afraid I am

Of time

Of change

Of being left with nothing but memories

and silence

I’d tell you

that sometimes

I wish I didn’t have to wake up at all

That there are nights

I imagine fading

softly

like the way a candle dies

when no one’s watching

But even then

even in the deepest part of that dark

I remember you

And somehow

your light reaches me

And I stay

Because your essence

the warmth of it

the truth of it

is the only thing

that still feels like home