\"The Silence Between Us\"

In the pause before words were born,
I left the truth beneath my breath,
Chose silence where meaning slept,
And let our moments drift to death.

The things I did not say still linger,
Like shadows cast by fading sun,
Caught between the heart and tongue,
In the space where love was undone.

Regret now writes where I was mute,
Its ink a quiet, aching sound—
A song of all I dared not speak,
Etched in the silence all around.

Yet even in this hollow ache,
There blooms a strange and tender grace:
The space between the words I kept
Now shapes the beauty I embrace.