We talk like friends
because that is safer.
Your name sits on my tongue
like something sacred
I am not allowed to say too loudly.
Our hands almost touch
and the world holds its breath.
I wonder
if you feel it too
that quiet electricity
that makes ordinary rooms
feel like constellations.
Loving you in silence
is both beautiful
and unbearable.
Some feelings bloom
in the dark
before they ever see the sun.
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