And sometimes... I kept my feelings to mysel...

And sometimes...

I kept my feelings to myself.
Not because they weren't true, but because they lived too deeply to be spoken out loud.

So I carried them-in the silence between my words, in the pauses of my smile in the weight behind my eyes.

I wasn't trying to hide...
I just didn't know how to unwrap something so fragile in a world that doesn't always listen gently.