29/09/2026
"A Love Unspoken"
I loved her not as rivers love the sea,
Nor as the moon must answer to the night;
I loved her in the quiet parts of me,
Where even hope was frightened of the light.
I never asked her heart to answer mine,
Nor sought to make her feel what I had felt;
Some loves are born beneath a silent sign,
And live because they ask for nothing else.
She passed through days as sunlight through a room,
Unknowing of the warmth she left behind;
While I, who knew her only in my bloom,
Made gardens from the thoughts she left in mind.
And if she never learns the love I knew,
Then let it be—some loves need not come true.
-Sean Santos