Words Left on the Platform1 min read

He stood on the nearly empty platform, lungs tight with unsaid confessions.

Her silhouette disappeared behind the closing doors.

He wanted to shout, to call her name, to tell her everything he had never said.

But the words stayed lodged in his throat, swallowed by the sound of the departing train.

She was gone.

And now, he would never know if she might have stayed.