When Your Smile

I start with the truth I can’t hide,

your smile unravels me.

Not in a dramatic, falling-apart way,

but in that quiet collapse

where the heart finally admits

just how deeply it cares.

You tilt your head,

just slightly,

and suddenly my balance shifts.

Something warm blooms under my ribs,

a kind of tender electricity

that I still don’t fully understand,

yet crave every time it appears.

There’s a pull between us,

gentle,

strangely certain,

like the world nudging us closer

without asking permission.

And I go with it,

every time,

because you feel like the place

I’ve been learning how to return to

my entire life.

In the smallest breath,

everything deepens.

Not just attraction,

not even longing—

something more rooted.

I see the softness in your gaze,

the unspoken yes of it,

and suddenly the moment

moves from sweet to sacred.

I don’t just lose my strength,

I give it willingly,

trusting you to hold

the parts of me that tremble.

And you do,

with that same effortless light

you carry everywhere you go.

So when you smile again,

I don’t fight the feeling.

I let it wash through me,

reminding me that love,

when it’s real,

doesn’t weaken us at all.

It reveals where our hearts

finally feel safe.