Donât dress it up. Donât call it holy.
Itâs not a soft place to land,
not a quiet church for your wounds.
Itâs teeth, bared and gnashingâ
a hunger so deep it swallows you
Donât look at me with your soft eyes.
And donât tell me about forever.
Forever is a lie we tell each other
when weâre afraid of being
Because love is not eternal.
Itâs destruction. Itâs rebirth. It's death.
a sickness you thank for keeping you alive
even as it eats you alive.
Some days, I donât even like you.
I know thatâs ugly. I know.
But itâs true. There are mornings
on the fragile walls of my patience,
when I look at you and feel nothing
but the fact that I will still choose you
You want to know what love is?
Itâs breaking yourself open
a thousand times and still coming back.
Itâs saying, *Yes. Hurt me again.*
Take what you need and leave me hollow
how not to give you everything.
Itâs drowning in your chaos
We build love out of violence.
Every kiss is a battle cry,
every silence a goddamn graveyard.
We bury the softer versions of ourselves.
We dig, we dig, and we fucking claw.
Not because weâre wholeâ
but because our brokenness
fits together like jagged glass.
Maybe I donât love you cleanly.
Maybe my love isnât gentle or kind or easy.
staring at every ruined part of you,
*Yes. Again. Again. Again.*