Text I’ll Never Send

I saw your name light up again

Not a message—just a memory

That picture from 2010

You in that old hoodie, next to me

Funny how my chest still tightens

When I scroll too far, and time rewinds

I know I said I’m over it

But my thumbs keep proving otherwise

Wrote you a thousand drafts

Then watched ‘em all die

This is the text I’ll never send

Typed out drunk at 2 a.m.

"You still cross my mind, more than I pretend"

I hit delete and hit it again

I saved it in a note, not the thread

Right next to all the things I never said

This is the truth I won’t defend—

Just a text I’ll never send.

Your sister got married last fall

I saw it through a tagged post

You looked older, happier

And somehow even further than most

My heart said “just one message”

But my pride still guards that ghost

Maybe you'd write back… maybe you wouldn’t

Maybe you moved on, or maybe you couldn’t

But I never gave you the chance to choose

And maybe that’s why I still lose

‘Cause silence isn’t closure

It’s just a wound that won’t bruise

This is the text I’ll never send

It still lives in my drafts, unsent

"Hope you found your peace, I never quite did"

Too many words, too much to admit

A goodbye that never began

Just me and the weight of what we never had

No rewrite. No postscript. Just “the end.”

And a text I’ll never send.