Letters We Never Lived

I found the box beneath the window
Full of letters you never lived
All the words I never sent you
Still echo in the corners of my head

Your mother said we dreamed too reckless
My father said we loved too young
So we folded all our feelings
And swallowed every song we almost sung

Funny how silence becomes a choice
When every voice around us isn't ours
These are the letters we never lived
Moments we lost but never forgave

Two hearts that almost touched
But fate wouldn't let them stay
In a world of glowing screens
I still reach for something real

Yet the loneliness between the lines
Is the only thing I feel
Tell me, was it destiny?
Or the choices we couldn't make?

'Cause we're the letters left unopened
The story we couldn't save
Now you're a picture on a timeline
Smiling in a life I'll never know

And I'm just another quiet name
Scrolling past the places you outgrew long ago
We traded conversation for convenience
Turned confessions into cryptic signs

But no screen could hold the weight
Of all the words I meant to write
Maybe love was never meant to hide
Behind the glass dividing you and I

These are the letters we never lived
Moments we lost but never forgave
Two hearts that almost touched
But fate wouldn't let them stay

In a world of endless noise
Connection never felt so far
And every path I didn't choose
Still whispers who we are

Tell me, was it destiny?
Or the freedom that we feared?
'Cause we're the letters left unopened
The truth we never dared

What if I'd run when you asked me to?
What if you'd stayed when the world said don't?
Every choice becomes a lifetime
In the space between will and won't

I still see you at the crossing
Of the future and the past
And I wonder if we lost us
Or if we never had a chance

These are the letters we never lived
Dreams that dissolved at our door
But somewhere in another life
Maybe we made it, maybe we're more

Tonight I'll raise a quiet toast
To the love we almost became
Not forgotten, not regret
Just a tender, unfinished name

Was it destiny or choice?
Maybe both, or maybe none
But we're the letters left unopened
A story forever undone