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His heart is racing

Pounding at the door of my chest

“Let me in!” He cries

I bolt the latch.



His love falls on deaf ears, it seems

For it gets no reaction.

I know he truly cares -

But to reply to those three words would entail

That I care too.



And then I’m attached.

Those three simple words are chains

Tying me down.

Suffocating me.

Shattering my thorny skin

Those three words...

Those three words!



I’ve told him I can’t say them back

Yet still he tries.

Every night, when our goodbyes are said

They are spoken.

I smile, nod, and say:

“Sleep well.”



Perhaps, one night,

I can instead whisper

“I love you too.”

And not have the dread that I do.