I Hid My Love

I found this poem in one of Malaysia youth newspapers a few years back in someone's dorm room.  I don't keep a copy of the original article, so I don't think this is the whole poem I read - if you happen to know this, or wrote it, please share ya!  I don't know why after these years I suddenly remember this.  Need to tell someone I love him/her?  But who?  My grey cells have been busy processing data for work the past few weeks, I don' have time for 'mushy-mushy' thingy.  It just doesn't make sense why I - or something in me, want so much to get this poem right.

Or is it a warning that I'm becoming a robot - gosh, gotta get back to work!  Ok, after I finish writing down what I can recall...

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I HID MY LOVE

I hid my love,

Behind smiles that seemed to bear no meaning,

While my eyes welled with deep feeling,

Between the words that seemed so much more,

Then they did just a while before.

My very actions,

Can be full of interpretations,

My gestures; no matter how subtle they be,

Can reveal all that is dear to me -- the very love I hid.

When I said "thank you",

Listen not to my words alone,

But also to the very tone,

Because my love hides deep in my voice,

Giving cause for you to rejoice.

And when I let you do,

The things that you do for me,

I leave you to do them because I see,

It's your concern you're trying to show,

It's through this your love shines - I know.

So I hid my love.

For my love lies not in what I sometimes say,

Nor the actions I show to you

But most of the times, in all that I don't say,

And more often than not in all that I don't do.

~Author unknown~

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