For ages I’ve circled ‘round your sun,
A silent moon, outshone, undone.
You were the fire I couldn’t claim,
A distant star that burned my name.

I’ve grown, I’ve drifted, chased the skies,
But still I spin in your sunrise.
No tether holds, no words were said
Just gravity I can’t out shed.

I loved you like the morning star,
Before the skies knew who we are.
But now I wrap my heart in mist,
A flame I dare not let exist.

In fields where storms have yet to pass,
I hide my love in blades of grass.
Not out of fear, but to defend
A fragile bloom the winds might end.

In order to love, you should know how first
Not just the sweet, but also the worst.
Not just the giving, but how to receive,
Not just to hold, but also to leave.

Know how to listen when silence is loud,
To stand with a heart that’s not always proud.
To weather the storms and still choose to stay,
To speak through the night and greet each new day.

You must know yourself your shadows, your light,
What makes you tremble, what gives you fight.
For love is no refuge from wounds you ignore,
It knocks, not to fix you, but open a door.

So learn how to carry the weight of your name,
Before asking someone to dance in your flame.
For love is not learned in the blink of an eye
It begins in the mirror, with the courage to try.

I've loved you quietly, ever since,
Before the world could make me flinch,
Before I knew that love could ache,
Or hearts could crack, or voices break.

I held you in each hidden prayer,
In stolen glances, silent stares,
You were the hope I didn’t name,
The constant in a world that changed.

But loving you, though pure and true,
Feels like a gift I can't give you.
Not whole, not right , not what you need,
Not what your heart deserves to keep.

So I will try to walk away,
Though part of me will always stay.
You need a love that has no doubt,
No fear, no shadows stretched throughout.

Mine never wavered, never strayed,
But pain still lived where love once laid.
And though it breaks me, still I’ll go
You deserve more than I can show.

Yet even from a world apart,
You’ll always live inside my heart.
And if you ask me why I do
It’s because I’ve always loved you.

I do not fear love
I fear the gravity of him.
He is the storm wrapped in sunlight,
the gentle ruin of every wall I built.

His presence is poetry
a language my soul has always known
but never dared to speak.
He is fire beneath silk,
the hush before a kiss,
the ocean tide that pulls at the shores of my restraint.

To fall for him
would be to surrender my wings
to a sky that might never let me go and yet,
what sweeter fall is there than into a heart
that feels like forever?

Love unspoken is a whispered lie
A truth restrained left high and dry
For anything less than ' I love you'
Is a heart denying what it already knew.

To hold back love is to betray
A silent truth we push away
For hearts that feel yet dare not say,
are only lying in delay.