Silent Yearning

In the quiet spaces between words, unspoken feelings grow heavy. Silent Yearning delves into the ache of unrequited love, where silence becomes the refuge for emotions too complicated to voice. A reflection on the struggle of loving from a distance, and the painful truth that sometimes, longing is all that remains.

12/8/20241 min read

I told you I didn’t like you.

How could I say otherwise when your happiness rested in her hands, not mine?

I told you I never liked you.

How could I admit that I waited—hoped—for a fleeting moment when you’d see me differently? But you never did.

I told you I don’t imagine you in my future.

I don’t.

Because the thought of having you near, yet never truly with me, is a burden I cannot bear.