In this world
where reality ends
*and fiction begins,
you started loving me.

Your eyes look like fire
The kind that greets you with a hot mug of coffee in the morning
The kind that makes you want to sit, share stories and roast marshmallows

Your eyes look like fire
The kind that this world revolves around but can never get closer to because
Your eyes look like fire
The kind that starts with a flicker and creeps into forests and houses on a windy night

Your eyes look like fire
Not the kind that coughs out its last embers but the kind that lets out one final explosion before it turns into dark coal and ashes

*Your eyes looked like fire.

Nothing's changed.*

You're still
the first person
I'd like to share
these moments with.

Falling in love
Is like flying,
But time will come
When you'd be falling,
And you're only hope
Is someone who'll catch you.

His words are like
Flowers in a garden,
You sense, you feel,
Beautiful and sweet,
But they were never meant
As solely yours.

I kept all
The pictures we had
And the things you gave
In a box and labeled it
Forever.

I was hoping someday
I'll open it without pain
With happiness and the love left
Or the love that came back
*Or the love that has always remained.

When the storyteller of Don Quixote told me that love needs no excessive gestures
I felt it was true
And when you saw those words written on my journal
The same time we found the courage to hold on again
You said it isn't about needing though
It's about wanting
And that was what I've been trying to tell you this whole time
I didn't want you because I need you
I needed you because I want you
I love you
But it was only this time that I realize how true those words were to me
We never needed big surprises in public places
And thousands of pictures and social media posts
Although I would have loved that
Love found no need for labels
To know I have you and you have me, always
I don't think there's anything that could ever encompass what we had
Is there a label that could say we found what love really is with what there was
Love didn't need a hell of a roller coaster ride relationship to prove its worth because
You were right
When you feel it, it'll stay there
You just believe it
Not the kind of belief where you believe in something to make it true
But the kind where you believe because it is true
Love needs no excessive gestures
It only needed you and I
It only needed us, in our little bubble, soft glances, warm smiles, right by each other's side, with certainty and calmness we've never found before
Love needs no excessive gestures
But we had always made it so much more.

I was soaring so high
Because of you,
Then I began
To feel the air
Against me.

I'm going down,
Down and down,
Now I don't know
If it's because of the gravity
Or because of you.

Your hands
Over my eyes
I feel
Your breath
Kissing the back
of my head.

Your hands
Over my eyes
They're cold
But please
Do not let go.

Your hands
Over my eyes
I see nothing
But you fill it
With colors,dyes.

Your hands
Over my eyes
I don't mind
Because now
There's only
...
**You and I.

I welcomed you into my life,
You packed your things leaving nothing behind.

I was waiting, hoping for more time,
You counted every second passing by.

**I said hello,
You said goodbye.

Sometimes I find it hard to say
But I would love to tell you in every way
That I love you anyway.

Years ago, I wrote your name
Over and over on a piece of paper,
Now it's faded and gray
Like the memories we shared long ago,
But do not worry dear,
You are inked in my heart forever.

I want to be there
When the world is more than unfair
When everything just gets to your hair
When all you can do is sit and stare
I will be there.

I want to be there
When the sun decides to share
When you stand up and dare
And when you're finally sure
That you too, will be there.

He is just another one of the fallen,
For the queen of hearts and all.

He might have everything
If everything is not with her.

Loving you is like
Seeing the first lamppost light up
Then watching all the others
Shine one by one.

Your love
is the letter
under my pillow
I read
before I sleep.

Love isn't blind
Love is seeing.

You told me
I wouldn't mind
The flaws of the person
I'd be loving.

That was the time
For you I began falling
For love isn't blind
Love is seeing.

You were the hymn I once hummed,
The chords that are hard for me to play,
The instruments I never learned,
The notes I could never reach,
But you will always be my melody,
The beat of my heart.

When I think of you,
My pen cries tears,
And I'm hoping they will send to you
The words I wish I could say,
The words I should have said.