WHEN COURAGE CAME TOO LATE

SORRY I learned to be brave at the quiet end,
When your name became a memory.
The words I saved for “someday”
Now fall with no place to be.

I stood there holding my truth,
While time closed its final door.
Your silence answered everything—
You would wait for me no more.

I replay the moments endlessly,
Every pause, every fear I chose.
Courage grew the day you left,
Like a flower on a grave of no repose.

If I had spoken one breath sooner,
If fear had loosened its hold—
You might have known my heart,
Before the world turned cold.

Now courage lives with regret,
A lesson carved in ache and time.
I was ready when you were gone—
And that will always be mine.

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