Love Written In Black Ink

Love Written In Black Ink

People speak of love like flame

Bright and fast and hard to tame

Like thunder in the sky

Or stars appearing overnight

Yet mine arrived another way

No grand event, no special day

No music drifting through the air

Just someone slowly staying there

You entered carrying your own rain

Old disappointments, quiet pain

I smiled and hid my weather too

Pretending skies were always blue

At first we spoke in careful ways

Like strangers counting passing days

Keeping our stories close inside

And giving truth a place to hide

Then little things began to grow

The sort most people never show

Remembered words and simple care

And finding comfort being there

You learned my silence had a voice

I learned that staying is a choice

Not made once under perfect light

Yet made again through every night

Some days were easy, warm and bright

Some days we never got it right

Still something stronger settled in

Not flawless love, something akin

To knowing someone sees your scars

Without demanding brighter stars

To laugh and talk and still remain

Through awkward days and passing rain

One evening sitting side by side

No grand confession left to hide

I realised softly without warning

Love had arrived without performing

Now if someone should ask me when

I would not point to where or then

I’d say it happened quietly

When ordinary became somewhere

I wanted to be

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