Poetry & Art

Telling You I Love You Without Telling You I Love You

/ I have a letter stored on the Notes App on my phone

and it says ‘To You – In Case I Die’.

It lists all the things I want to tell you but can’t. /

 

/ I write lists in my head every day I don’t see you,

to remember everything I want to tell you

next time we do. /

 

/ Everyone who has known me before you

says they’ve never seen me this happy.

I have never seen myself this happy. /

 

/ I take endless amounts of pictures and videos of you

because I like to look back through the slideshow of our life together

and see how much you’ve grown. I’m so proud of you. /

 

/ I’m not saying I would jump off the Titanic for you

because it would make me seem crazy.

(But I would jump off the Titanic for you.) /

 

/ I write entire books

about how your skin always feels

like you have a whole forest fire burning underneath it. /

 

/ I’m learning how to be a better person.

Because of you.

Sometimes even for you. /

 

/ I’m getting my life together,

I’m trying to figure out who I am and what I want.

I want to make you proud. /

 

/ I write down every single loving thing you ever say to me

to remind myself how much I mean to you.

Even if you don’t tell me all the time. Just like I don’t tell you. /

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by Theresa Vogrin

Theresa Vogrin is a 24-year-old Austrian writer, living in Guildford (United Kingdom) and Graz (Austria).
Growing up, books were her best friends and so it came naturally to her to write her own stories. At the age of thirteen her love for writing was born and soon after that, she discovered the beauty of the English language.
In her work, Theresa discusses a wide range of themes such as love, life, relationships and distance.
Being a passionate person herself, she is very good at capturing emotions with her unique way with words. Through her poetry she tries to figure out how people work, why they do what they do and how she can make them feel something - anything - with just her words.
Theresa published her first poetry book "Bitter-Sweet" in July 2018.


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