u/Poetic_Hallows_003

I hang onto every word
that passes through your lips.
Your voice graces my ears like silk—
soft, even when the world is loud.

Your smile is the light
I chase through narrowing darkness
the only thing left to reach for
when reaching felt impossible.

The river bared its teeth and tore
my helpless body apart.
You fought the dark to find me,
and carried my broken soul to shore.

To say you saved me
feels undersold.
To say you gave me life
feels like my story
is finally being told.

Maybe I know why
I love you so deeply
is because you’re the first person
to truly make me feel seen.

Somehow, you make me feel
like I’m the only person in the world.

Maybe I know why
I love you so intensely
is because you taught me how
to love not only you,
but myself too.

Maybe I know why
our love feels so familiar
is because you’re the only one
who truly gets me,
accepts me as I am,
and makes me feel like I’m enough.

When life gets heavy,
when burdens cast shadows,
I look for you.
Always.

The neck grows beaten
after all that is shouldered,
last to be checked on,
the curse of a weathered exterior

Exhausted efforts
strain the joints
of the one who always reaches,
yet is expected to be okay

A smile,
that’s all it takes
as those around you accept it
as proof you are fine

Words tremble at the lips,
wishing to be spoken
to inviting ears

The strong are expected
no grace, no questions
If the cover were ever lifted,
the tattered hidden parts
would surely leave them staggering

A longing for emptiness,
a void that somehow fulfills.
Isolation, my great equalizer,
yet the fear of it lingers.

Comfort found in blank spaces,
in the draining of life.

Is it the familiarity
of forced comfort
inside lonely places,
or acceptance?

I isolate to feel nothing,
yet feeling alone
is all that entertains.

A true friend it has been,
one I pray not to meet again.

Tiptoeing the line
as I sink into my safe space,
wondering if isolation
is my friend,
or my foe.