Almost Love

Some stories aren't loud.
They don't arrive with thunder or leave behind fire.
They unfold quietly - in glances not held long enough, in words not said soon enough, in love that waited too long.

This is a story of what could have been.
Of the spaces between silence and confession.
Of a woman who spoke for the world and a man who forgot how to speak for himself.
Of everything they never said... until now.