The November 13th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to ‘[w]rite a poem that begins with the line I wanted to say…’.

I wanted to say something
but didn’t

I wanted to tell you
but couldn’t

I wanted to ask you
but dared not

I wanted to open myself completely
but…

(14 November 2014)