#dearyou

yes i am quiet

but every look i steal

is a confession

i dare not give

i never meant to crave

the way you linger near.

it feels like standing at the edge

of a forbidden garden,

i keep my desire folded

between unspoken words,

but when your laughter

breaks the room open,

it spills like light

even the moonlight hesitates

to touch your face.

it knows what i know

that some beauty

is too dangerous

there’s a quiet ache

in wanting you,

as if the world

would splinter

if it ever saw

how my gaze

your nearness lingers on my skin,

soft as breath,

yet it stirs a hunger,

i speak your name only in silence,

afraid the night might overhear.

still, my heart presses closer,

like a secret that refuses

you make the rules in my veins bend,

you teach my breath to betray me

and yet without fail