I try to pretend that you don’t exist

Acknowledgement is not bliss

My heart breaks with every mention of you

On social media pictures come into view

Yet I know in my heart that I am blessed

To have known you

To have been with you

To have felt your warm caress

So many words between us said

Yet the important word never confessed

It is perhaps too late to recover

To get back what we once felt for each other

But I will say the word we were afraid to utter

“I love you.”