I just can’t say I love you

My mind is traveling fast, seeking words to say.

Mine is the throbbing heart, can’t describe in any way.

In every teardrop you shed and sob you make,

There is the guilt that I know I can’t fake.

There is the responsibility we both have to face

To each of us is given too much burden to brace

For I know, the proper season has not yet come—

Like the orchids of the tropic, those are not yet on bloom.

But this I say to you and to you I speak,

“Don’t cry, smile…I do not want you to be weak.

Even though I long to say these words to you,

Love, I just can’t say ‘I love you’.”