Love You Never Knew

I fell for all your small things,

The way you said my name.

You smiled like it meant something—

I guess I dreamed the same.

I built a world around you

From every look you gave,

But you were only passing through,

And I was yours to save.

But you never felt it,

Not the way I did.

I was holding on to something

You already let slip.

It’s hard to lose a story

That only lived in my head—

But you never felt it,

So there’s nothing left unsaid.

I tried to read your silence,

Tried to make it mean you cared.

But all the signs were empty,

And all the hope was mine to bear.

You walked away so gently,

Like I wasn’t breaking too—

A quiet kind of ending

To a love you never knew.

I don’t blame you for the distance,

I don’t blame you for the fall—

It’s just hard to lose a future

You never saw at all.

’Cause you never felt it,

Not the way I did.

I was holding on to something

You already let slip.

It’s hard to lose a story

That never got to be true—

But you never felt it,

So I’ll try letting go of you.