Your name stays warm on my tongue

But I don’t let it out

I type it slow, then erase it

Like it never found a sound

Cold light shaking on the screen

My hands forget what to do

Every word I almost send

Still feels too close to you

Breath caught in the space between

Delete and send

Inhale, exhale —

I still breathe you in

I whisper, but I don’t press send

The glass stays quiet in my hands

Every signal fades to blue

I almost reach you — then I don’t

My heart learns how to pretend

This silence was the plan

Neon blinking like a pulse

That never finds your name

I keep my feelings on low power

So they don’t burn away

Your shadow hums inside my chest

A frequency I know

But every time I get too close

I let the moment go

Drafts of us in broken code

Love unsent, but overload

My circuits glitch in tandem

When they see you in my phone —

I whisper, but I don’t press send

No echo coming back again

Through the static, I feel you near

But fear types faster than my hands

This confession stays unsent

Still glowing in the air

Dele memorias tactus tui

Quae nocte habuimus

Quod tandem amisimus

Cor meum frange et mitte preme

I whisper, but I don’t press send

No echo coming back again

Through the static, I feel you near

But fear types faster than my hands

This confession stays unsent

Still glowing in the air