The Words I Didn't Say

I keep the words I didn't say
in a room inside my chest,
they rattle in the nighttime hours
when everything else is at rest.

I should have said: I love you more than this,
I should have said: you matter, don't go—
but I kept the words for later
and later wouldn't show.

Speak your love while there is time.
The unsaid is a weight that multiplies—
say the word today, the urgent tender word,
before it joins the words that no one hears.
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