I want to say I love you on your birthday

I want to say I love you on your birthday,
though love is something you don’t want from me.

things didn’t go so well when I last said it,
and so I’ll keep it silent in my heart.

but how the words reverberate within me!
a song that I must struggle not to sing,

a music I must dance to without motion,
a poem that I must never read aloud.

your wishes are a wall I would not scale,
yet won’t abandon, loathe to leave behind.

I cannot have, and cannot bear to lose you,
and so I send you this in my despair.

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