The Things You Never Shared

Lately I've had tears in my eyes
And I want to shake people
To tell them to wake up
To love the people they have
While they have them

Of course I feel guilty!
There is much to regret
Because the bad things you believed
Were true

I thought perhaps
That you were unable to understand
Too slow
Because our communication
Was stilted

But I found, in retrospect
That you couldn't get the words out
When we spoke
But your writing and your thoughts
Had clarity
And your understanding was present
In the things you never shared

And, God, how I regret that
The things you never shared
How we both could have grown as people
How we could have understood each other
How we could have bonded

Now I can't blame you
It's never fair to blame the dead
So I have to blame me
But how could I have known?
The things you never shared!