The Words I Never Sent

I kept the letter folded in a drawer beside my bed

A thousand lines I never wrote, a thousand things unsaid

I carried every moment like a weight I couldn't name

And told myself that someday I would try to do the same

But someday turns to never

When you wait for perfect time

These are the words I never sent

The ones I held behind my silence

The truth I thought could wait forever

Until forever slipped away

These are the words I never sent

If I could place them in your heartbeat

I'd speak them now without the trembling

Before the light began to fade

I pictured you unfolding it on some forgotten day

Reading every fragile hope I never found the nerve to say

But fear became my handwriting, and doubt my only ink

I let the days run past me while I stood right on the brink

I thought there'd be a moment

When the courage would appear

These are the words I never sent

The ones I held behind my silence

The truth I thought could wait forever

Until forever slipped away

These are the words I never sent

If I could place them in your heartbeat

I'd speak them now without the trembling

Before the light began to fade

If I could send a message

To the life I left behind

It'd say: Don't wait to speak your truth

Don't let fear steal all your time

These are the words I never sent

Don't let your love go unspoken

Don't save the things that truly matter

For a day that never comes

These are the words I never sent

Speak them while the air is warm

Before regret becomes your burden

And silence leaves you numb