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 the sea. We made plans we never walked. 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,