• We hold such an emphasis on our children's first words.
• We have such sorrow on our love's last words.
• But where are we in the in-between?
• For all their "I love you's"
• All their "I need you's"
• For their unspoken "I want you's"
• Dread not their last, live not their first
• But ~want~ all those that go unspoken in the in-between

:related but not the poem itself: ~Those that you want deserve to know they're wanted.Your actions and words say something in the in-between~