I loved you in quiet, hidden and deep,
A soft secret song that only I keep.
You drifted through dreams, so blissfully free,
While I held a heart that loved silently.
I watched from the shadows, unseen and unknown,
Tracing your laughter, a world of my own.
Each glance you cast, each word unmeant,
Fed the flame of love, though never spent.
If you’d turned near, just once looked my way,
I’d weave you a world where we both could stay.
But your heart beat on in another’s tune,
While I faded softly, under the moon.
For love, when unspoken, is like air in the night,
A ghostly embrace in the absence of light.
It lingers, it aches, this secret I wear —
A love you can’t see, yet always there.
And though you may never know or feel,
I cherish this burden, raw and real.
A quiet fire, a hidden plea —
One-sided, perhaps, yet enough for me.