#composite juno

i thought you were wind but you were smoke, curling through my ribs then vanishing before i could hold the shape of you.

you spoke in stars, fluent in futures that never arrived. i traced every syllable like scripture truth tasted like freedom, until it tasted like absence.

you told me love is not possession so i let go, hoping you'd stay. but you made an altar of escape and called it devotion.

there were sparks, yes. a fire that danced too close to the seams of what i swore i wouldn’t unravel for anyone. but i did. and you watched. and you called it beautiful as it burned.

you taught me to trust then left me with lessons. you kissed my forehead like a promise but wrote your name in disappearing ink.

what a wild sermon you were. preacher of potential, pilgrim of the next best thing. you blessed me then broke me with the same mouth.

now i carry the weight of the waiting the kind that hollows out hope but teaches you exactly what you're worth when silence is the only answer.

observation & poem are done by me !!! @pearlprincess02

you held me like a statue holds a flame still, cold, and flickering only when no one was watching.

there was power in your silence, but it was never soft. you loved through locked doors, left keys in dreams i couldn’t keep.

i mistook your structure for safety, your distance for depth, your eyes for a promise you never intended to keep.

you made discipline look like devotion. i made excuses for the rooms you never let me into, for the warmth i begged for in a house made of stone.

you called me your mirror but never looked long enough to see your own reflection. instead, you dressed me in your version of virtue, quieted me with compliments that sounded like commands.

i learned to fold myself like a love letter you’d never read neat, hidden, left beneath the weight of your ambition.

now i know: you weren’t protecting me. you were protecting your image from the vulnerability i threatened.

but i was never dangerous. only honest. only willing. only wrong.

observation & poem are done by me !!! @pearlprincess02