I Want To Tell You, But

There’s a hell of a lot going on inside my mind
I wish I could tell you everything
The way you
always used to listen.

I wish I could run to you and share all of it
From my tiniest wins to my biggest falls
I’m dying to hear just one line from you:
“Say... I’m listening.”

All these unsaid words
They’re building up inside me
Like a nuclear chain reaction,
Each thought giving birth to a thousand emotions.

I wish you were still my cadmium rod
The one who could calm the storm
Who kept me steady
when everything inside was burning.

Can you imagine how difficult it is
For someone like me,
A heart-on-sleeve kind of soul,
To hold everything?

To pick up the phone
Only to put it right back down
Because I remember
You’re not there to hear it anymore.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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