Lost, I Miss You
I see you every day, your face, your eyes, the way you move through a room, and somehow it only makes me miss you more.
There is a part of me that wakes up when you’re near, a quiet ache that settles under my skin, a longing I can’t hide no matter how steady I pretend to be.
When you speak to me, I feel something warm unfold inside my chest, something I’m not supposed to feel, something I try to swallow down even as it rises again the moment you smile.
Being close to you is its own kind of sweetness, but also its own kind of torture, because I can stand beside you, hear your voice, breathe the same air, and still not touch the place where you truly are.
I wander through my days carrying you quietly, your presence pressed into me like a fingerprint.
A short moment of confusion I could have handled, but this… this has become a part of me.
I keep searching for a way to soften this longing, to find a corner of myself untouched by you, but I’m no longer sure it exists.
And slowly, gently, I feel myself slipping into the space between what I feel for you and what I can never say out loud.
This letter will stay unsent,
but every word is you, is yours.