Mhmmmm... If you could hear my heart... not my voice, not the words I choose... just my heart... what would you hear? Maybe the things I never said. The names I still carry. The moments I pretend didn't matter. Maybe you'd hear how tired some silences are. Mhmmmm... If you could hear my heart... would you stay? Would you hear the parts of me I hide behind: I'm fine. I'm okay. Don't worry. Would you hear the truth underneath? That sometimes I don't need an answer. I just need someone to hear me. Mhmmmm... If you could hear my heart... you'd hear laughter. Old songs. A few regrets. A thousand memories I never meant to keep. You'd hear people who are gone... still living somewhere inside me. You'd hear love that changed. Pain that softened. And hope... that somehow never completely left. Mhmmmm... If you could hear my heart... maybe you'd understand why I go quiet sometimes. Why one small word can stay with me for years. Why a certain song can stop me in the middle of a room. Why sometimes I look far away... even when I'm standing right beside you. Mhmmmm... And maybe... if I could hear yours... I'd stop asking so many questions. Maybe I'd know that behind your smile there are things you don't know how to say either. Maybe we'd both understand... we were never as alone as we thought. Mhmmmm... If you could hear my heart... don't fix it. Don't explain it. Don't make it something it isn't. Just listen. For one moment. Stay still enough... to hear what words could never say. Mhmmmm... And maybe... that's what love is. Not knowing every answer. Just knowing... there is a heart beside yours... still beating. Mhmmmmmm... If you could hear my heart... maybe... you already do.
