I Didn’t Say

Silence doesn’t mean absence.

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I never said

As I watched you with my heart

More than my eyes.

You thought it was the trees,

But it was the way you moved

As you were thinking.

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I never said

But I recall each step that you took

More clearly than my name.

I learned the rhythm of your breaths

In the rooms where you thought

I didn’t hear.

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I never said

My silence was my shelter

And I kept my feelings in a locked closet

Because you never asked about them.

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I never said

How quietness can seem like consent

And made it easy for you to

Dismiss.

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I never said

How I see myself

Stand before you

Remembered.

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I never said

That I am not fine

With being remembered

As easy to love

As I never said.

I never said

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