You have never tried it

You have never tried,

to lose yourself inside a heart…

to silence your own voice

and become an echo in someone else’s silence.

You have never tried,

to carry the night until dawn in your eyes,

for the sake of one “maybe”

to swallow a thousand “nevers”.

You always watched from afar,

without reaching out your hand to the fire,

you described its warmth…

but you never knew what it means to burn.

You have never tried,

to accept the desire to break,

when shattering into pieces,

to still say “it was worth it”.

Yet some things

are only understood when falling,

and some people

remain only when they give up.

You are now the incomplete hero

of everything you never tried,

and I…

am the quiet victor of having tried and lost.

You have never tried.

Perhaps that is why

you have never truly lived,

you have never truly tried…