We carry words in our chests that never reach our lips. We rehearse sentences in our minds but swallow them before they ever become sound. Things I Can�t Say is a poetry collection born from that exact place. The place between the heartbeat and the breath where emotions rise but courage sometimes falls short. This book is a home for the unspoken the unfinished and the unsent.
The poems inside are written in English and Tagalog flowing freely like thoughts that refuse to stay hidden. Two languages, one story, one heart. Some feelings are shaped better in the language we grew up with while others find form in words we learned along the way. This collection does not choose one voice because emotions do not live in just one. They live in echoes in pauses in silence in every language that allows truth to breathe.
Here you will read poems that speak of heartbreak love longing mental noise healing self-doubt silent battles small victories and the tender chaos of being human. There are poems that cry softly and poems that bleed loudly poems that reach for answers and poems that finally learn to rest without them. Every piece is written from real moments felt deeply or imagined vividly. Every poem exists because silence was never empty it was simply waiting to be written.
This book does not chase perfection. It does not dress emotions in complex words or hide them behind deep metaphors that lose the pulse of truth. It speaks plainly bravely and honestly. It speaks to the people who have learned to hide their storms behind calm eyes to the ones who speak through art through color through poems through sleepless nights and long drives and silent prayers. It speaks to anyone who has ever felt like their voice was too heavy too fragile or too tangled to release.