i think you should know

“i think you should know i almost told you once when the sky looked like a watercolor dream and your laugh felt like home. i think you should know your name still lingers in the pauses between my thoughts— not loudly, just enough. i think you should know i notice the little things— how you tuck your hair back, how you hum without meaning to, how you listen like you’re holding space for someone’s whole world. i think you should know i don’t expect you to feel the same, i just needed to stop carrying quiet feelings in loud rooms. so here— this poem, is not a question, not a request, just a soft truth wrapped in verse. i think you should know— i felt something, and it was real.”