Where Love Heals

we were close

close enough
to feel everything

or at least
I thought we were

but something was missing

something soft
something real

and I didn’t name it
not then

I just stayed
quiet

like if I didn’t look at it
it wouldn’t matter

but I remember now

how I reached for you
and you pulled away

how something in me
felt it
even if I didn’t say it

and now

when you tell me
you want me

I can’t forget

that you had me

and still

you didn’t
hold me
the way I needed

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