peach!

you dance around them. your thoughts, your feelings, the truths that hide under polite conversation, those words we are too scared to say.

every gesture choreographed, every sentence carefully crafted. never say why, say 'i'm fine', never say yes, say 'if you want', but really? please stay.

please hear me. i am silently screaming for you, if you'd only hear the screams, or see the way i trace your steps just to stay close to you.

this is a performance. i dance around my feelings every day, trying to hide them away.

i'd never let you hear them, those words i am too scared to say.

you don’t always have to be so far away, do you? but you are. i orbit you like you're the sun then i'd be the planet you forgot to feel warm for.

i guess it's like gravity — tight, desperate, magnetic, it pulls me closer to you.

like maybe if i loved hard enough, you’d forget how to drift.

but the void grew teeth, and your silence was a wound. if i held so tight, why did i fall?

maybe you were never holding on. maybe letting go was quieter than i ever knew.

so now i float, not quite gone, just suspended. well, the stars don’t say your name anymore.

i held on tight.