SAVED, NOT SENT

The Message You Never Sent

A message typed at midnight, read twice, and put in drafts instead. "Can we talk when you get a minute?"

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Intro

Kitchen tile. Eleven fifty-two. Blue phone by the sink. Ice maker clicks.

Verse 1

Draft One. Thursday. Eleven fifty-three. Cold glass, cracked lock, blue light on my sleeve. Family thread, six heads in a forwarded frame. No caption attached, but the placement said names. You picked the room, picked the hour, picked the match. Then left your hands clean while the whole thread catch. Mom leaves her lamp on. Ray types, then quits. Nia sends three dots. They blink, then split. I scroll back slow through the blue-lit proof. April had the same move. June did too. Link after link, then the daylight shrug. Throw the rock at night, call the cracked glass touchy. I type, "Don't hide in the arrow and date." Then cut the word "hide." Facts need less weight. Sent. Watched. Locked. Walked when I came in. Four little verbs make a tight black frame. The kettle clicks off. My jaw stays set. I build each line like a case with steps. No curse, no guess, no heat I cant hold. Just timestamps stacked in a folder cold. My thumb finds Send. Red arrow, white glow. One touch, and every chair will know. I read it once. It can win. It can wreck. Tap Save to Drafts. Saved, not sent.

Chorus

Saved, not sent, let the red arrow wait. Saved, not sent, keep my chair at the plate. Saved, not sent, blue fire in the drafts. Sunday stays whole with the first draft in the past.

Verse 2

Draft Two. Friday. Seven sixteen. Coffee ring dried on the edge of the screen. I cut the doorway. Cut the glance. Cut June. Backspace swings four times through the room. The sharpest line makes the whole case click. It also leaves one less chair at six. Sunday looks small with that sentence inside. I lift the whole line, let the white space hide it. I leave "you knew," then cut that too. I cant prove what lived inside you. Seven thirty-one. Six lines remain. No doorway, no lock, no family names. I read them once with the faucet running. The words sound right. The room keeps running. I save the file, slide the phone in my coat. Carry my chair when the table wont.

Chorus

Saved, not sent, let the red arrow wait. Saved, not sent, keep my chair at the plate. Saved, not sent, blue fire in the drafts. Sunday stays whole with the first draft in the past.

Verse 3

Draft Three. Next Thursday. One line left: "Can we talk when you get a minute?" I read it twice. No case. No blade. Save. Lock. Pocket. Let Sunday stay. Months pass measured in peas and rice, your glass to my left, my hand on the ice. You tilt your phone: Marcus in his cap, his mother beside him, both of them laughing. Above the photo: Drafts. Twenty-seven. One preview starts, "I'm going straight past heaven..." I know that cut. I made its twin. Same blue folder. Same war within. All these Sundays were edited from both sides. You clear the screen. Neither one asks why. You tip it back. The photo was just a photo. I pass the rice. You tell me where they drove.

Chorus

Saved, not sent, both red arrows wait. Saved, not sent, two chairs at the plate. Saved, not sent, blue fire in the drafts. Sunday stays whole with the first draft in the past.

Outro

Face down.

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