Five Winters on My Phone

Almost five long years talking through a screen. Two hearts miles

apart sharing what we couldn't live. I kept saying "soon." You kept holding onto me.

But I was scared of who I was and I never crossed that sea.

We made plans we'd never walk, dreamed of nights that never came. You waited for

steady love while I hid behind my shame. I wanted you more than I

said, but less than you deserved, and I let the distance win

before I ever found the nerve. And I know, I know,

I'm the reason it all froze. Every promise, every hope, turned to ghosts,