Love was never a heartbeat. It was the echo left behind after the heart forgot why it was still beating. It arrived wearing another person's face, its hands stitched together from promises that had already begun to rot. I welcomed it. Not because it was kind, but because loneliness knows how to mistake a wolf for warmth. Every smile it offered cast a longer shadow. Every whispered "forever" fed another ghost sleeping beneath my ribs. The thought of love is a clever liar. It builds cathedrals from broken mirrors, then asks us to kneel before our own reflections, calling the illusion destiny. How eagerly we obey. We water flowers that grow from graves, write poems to people who never truly existed, and embrace memories still unborn. Love watches. Silent. Patient. Like a spider waiting in the center of a web woven from hope. It never forces us inside. It simply lets us believe the silver threads are rays of morning light. By the time we understand, the sky has forgotten our ...
He wore a faithful ring, A quiet promise, a sacred thing. Years had woven threads so deep, In vows once sworn, in dreams asleep. Then fate arrived with gentle grace, A stranger's smile, a familiar face. No storm announced what came to be, Just whispered tides upon the sea. He fought the warmth that slowly grew, For love was never something he pursued. Yet every glance became a flame, And nothing inside remained the same. Confusion knocked without a sound, Leaving scattered thoughts all around. One heart held history, roots, and years; The other awakened forgotten cheers. He questioned dawn, he questioned night, Searching wrong, searching right. Could two souls call the same heart home? Or must one always walk alone? The weight of guilt, the pull of desire, Ashes resting beside a new fire. No easy answer, no simple way, Only emotions refusing to fade. His marriage carried memories dear, Built through laughter, hope, and tears. Yet something new had softly grown, A love that bloomed ...