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Things I Wanted to Tell You But Didn't 1

We went to a concert today.

Rather you went to a concert today.
I'm sure you enjoyed yourself. Cheering and bobbing to the beat while I stood beside you moving like ripples on a still lake. Slow and moody, with glass for eyes.

We went to a concert today.

Rather you went to a concert today.
In one hand you held a drink in the other your phone with the camera firing, and so I busied my hands with my pockets, watching the stage as love songs played. The songs were beautiful. So was the night. But I felt like your backpack – just there. Just there. I hang around but you don't mind. You just don't mind.

We went to a concert today...

Rather you went to a concert today.
You went to have fun. I went to be with you. Maybe I wanted my hand held, maybe I wanted your jacket on my frame, maybe I wanted your attention. Maybe I'm selfish to ask, maybe I'm selfish because I didn't... I wanted this to happen like you wanted it to. Not because I asked. Because if I did ask, the story would be over before it started. Because if I asked, we'd have a fight one day and you'll say, 'because you asked me to'. I never ask because I'm scared to know that maybe, just maybe, you didn't want to.

We went to a concert today.

Rather you went to a concert today. Now I don't know if I was right to go.