Secrets Between the Lines

A tender, slow love song asking someone to share what they have hidden. One word is enough to open everything he keeps inside. His hands are cold but his heart remembers every detail: a laugh, an old wound, a picture that will not sleep. He asks her to tell him the secrets in her eyes and let honesty be her safety, to name her fear and turn it into certainty, and to write the last line with him and begin a new life. A lonely child under the rain, a man who says he is fine while one word is full of clouds. He imagines her leaving every face behind and saying she is afraid, without anyone needing to ask. He heard her name inside prayers and begged for her to heal from her tears. Come and rest, he says, your heart owes no one. Let us say enough and begin again.