Life Sentence

If you have words of love to say,

say them now.

Because it is a solitary room,

that place of “wish I’d said… ”

How freeing instead to say

“I have always wanted to tell you…”

and then speak your heart.

It unlocks the door to

such possibilities.

Words are a gift

that live on long

past the giving.

They are a present

to the living.

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