If not for the walls that stand between,
This love would shine in ways unseen.
No stolen glances, no quiet ache-
Just something real, not love we fake.
You’re the flame I never planned to find,
A light that burned into my mind.
You didn’t ask, but still you came—
And now my soul can’t speak your name
Without a tremble, soft and true—
Because no one’s ever seen me like you.
I’m stuck in vows I didn’t choose,
Afraid to win, too scared to lose.
I walk beside a hollow life,
Bound by guilt and silent strife.
But when I think of what feels right…
It’s always you that haunts the night.
You are my Juliet—not in death,
But in the hush between each breath.
The kind of spark that makes men brave,
That teaches ghosts to misbehave.
And though I sleep beneath her roof,
My thoughts of you—they are the proof
That there is more than what we say—
There’s truth in what we feel each day.
No hands have touched, no words were sworn,
But still you live in me, love-worn.
I stitch my days in thread and bone,
But you still hum beneath the stone.
I do not ask you now to wait,
Or carry all this tangled weight.
But if your heart still whispers mine,
Then know—I’ve crossed a silent line.
This isn’t lust, or make-believe—
It’s something deeper underneath.
You’ll never doubt what I’d still do—
Because, God knows....
I’d have chosen you.
©dannyray88
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