This is to you, sweet love unspoken

This is to you, sweet love unspoken,
I dared not tell you what I felt,
I feared my heart, I feared it broken,
I feared a blow below the belt.

You seemed so strong, so independent,
so sure of what you were and how,
I felt too weak and so dependent,
unsure of what you would allow.

I never knew how to approach you,
I never quite knew what to say,
my words were as the morning's fresh-dew,
forgotten with the break of day.

I wonder where and how your life goes,
I wonder, and I dream of you,
had I risked receiving life's blows,
perhaps you'd still be in my view.