Love, Loss and the Quiet Pain in Between

1.

Some love feels like sunlight,

soft, warm, safe.

And some love feels like fire,

beautiful-

until it burns you down.

2.

You were never a storm,

but I let you destroy me.

How can I blame the wind

when I was the one

Who left my doors open?

3.

They say time heals.

But some wounds

learn to live inside you.

They just stop screaming.

4.

I kept watering you,

thinking you'd bloom.

I didn't realize

I was drowning myself

just to keep you alive.

5.

If love has to beg,

it isn't love.

it's just a heart

asking for something

that was never meant

to be held.