The love whose name I dare not speak lest I implicate her lest I expose that she once professed to love me too the love who for me will last forever she loves another and we can never be can never share all yet we share secrets that burn the soul secrets I cannot confess for her sake alone yet that I would shout loudly from every rooftop and mountain and be proud to own secrets that I hope she will one day find the strength to confess too yet I fear she will instead put them safely inside that box she labels 'the past' and keeps locked up nailed tight shut even to herself