This is the silence of a crush.
Words that I kept hushed.
Glancing at you on the side.
My feelings I had to hide.
Then one day she said to me hi,
My stomach turned in to a butterfly.
Never would I even know.
Her feelings she couldn’t show.
That she also had feelings to hush,
As she said hi to her crush.
The Silence of a Crush
ATIBA OXLEY POETRY 