It started with a message
Something simple, barely your name
But even then I noticed
That my world would never be the same

You typed the way you think
With all your wonder in the lines
You turned the dull to bright
And made the quiet feel like signs

You shared the way you see things
Soft opinions, sudden sparks
And I just sat there smiling
Saving fragments in the dark

I learned your favorite stories
How your mind connects the threads
The way you write in questions
That still echo in my head

From the start I felt it
Like a rhythm I could hear
Not a voice, but something real
That kept on drawing me near

You never even knew
How I would wait for every word
Like every late reply
Was still the best I'd ever heard

You spoke like no one else
With kindness woven into wit
And though you said so little
I loved every bit of it

I almost said I missed you
When you disappeared those days
But who am I to claim you
When love hides in lowercase

You called me things so easily
And I wore that name with pride
But part of me kept wondering
What I might feel if I tried

To tell you that your thoughts
Feel like poems left unread
Or how I fall for people
More by how they speak instead

I never saw your face
But still you live behind my eyes
And though we’ve never met
You caught me in the softest lies

The ones I tell myself
Like this will pass, it’s just a phase
But I still check our thread
And count the hours and the days

Maybe you still wonder
If I felt a thing at all
But I was just held under
By a love I couldn’t call