Loving You in Silence

I see the way your eyes light up,

but never when they see me.

Your chuckling moves within the discuss,

a melody implied for somebody else to keep.

I stand near, but never near sufficient,

a shadow in your sunlit world.

You talk of cherish with a delicate murmur,

and my heart breaks, unheard, spread out.

I wish I might be the one you hold,

the title you whisper late at night.

But cherish is unfeeling, a severe destiny,

to long for what is never mine.

So I will adore you from a far distance,

a noiseless wish, a calm hurt.

Covering up sentiments I cannot appear,

grinning delicately as I break.