I didn’t know
love and want
hit the same
until you.
You didn’t promise anything.
You didn’t save me.
You didn’t even know.
You stood there
with a match in your pocket
while I was cold.
You asked questions
and waited for answers.
You spoke about your future
like it was already listening.
Somewhere between
your certainty
and my silence
I remembered myself.
The feeling comes in waves.
Warm near you.
Ach¬ing without you.
Same ache.
Different name.
I don’t reach
because I’m afraid to lose you.
I don’t speak
because timing is a language.
This is not patience.
It’s trust
without claim.
If nothing ever happens,
something already did.
I am more awake.
My world breathes.
My heart knows its weight.
And if one day
the world makes room
for what I haven’t touched,
I’ll tell you then
not as confession
but as gratitude
that you never had to love me
to change my life.
Mar 18
Mar 18, 2026 at 6:40 PM UTC
I thought it was your voice.
The way your words found me.
The way meaning gathered
around what you said.
I thought hearing you,
learning you,
understanding you
was where this bond bloomed.
I was wrong.
It was the patience.
The way you asked
and waited.
The way you held
what I said.
What drew me to you
was never your voice.
It was your silence.
Where I was seen.
Mar 17
Mar 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM UTC
I remember it vividly
I woke in the dark
Determined to hold it
Went over it
again and again
committing it to memory
So dawn wouldn't it take it
for herself
I drifted off
When I woke
the details were gone
An arm
maybe an embrace
No room
No words
No faces
Only the feeling
Warm
Close
Real
Whole
As if we were not separate
There was nothing to picture
Nothing to replay
Nothing left
Just the emotion
The base of it
The rawest of feelings
Mar 17
Mar 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM UTC
I didn’t write
to be heard.
I wrote
so it would stop pushing.
The words weren’t chosen.
They were released,
like air
finding a fracture.
I used to contain it.
Now I let it pass.
This one
wasn’t made.
I didn’t shape it.
I stood still.
It exited.
Mar 8
Mar 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM UTC