THE FEELINGS THAT STAYED

We were nothing they could name, not lovers, not friends, just two souls dancing in the silence between heartbeats. You, a voice through midnight wires, threading warmth through my loneliness. We never met, yet you saw the parts of me I never showed. We laughed like children at the edge of something deeper, and still, we never jumped. Too scared, too silent, too slow. You made me feel too much, like needing you was wrong. But how could I not return to the comfort of your voice, the way your words fit mine like old songs? We said nothing but everything lived in those long night calls, in the pauses, in the energy. And now, you're gone, but you stayed. In thoughts, in dreams, in the ache of what never became but always was.