#neareststar

I'm a poet, and by that identity, I am loyal. When I love you, I immortalize you in my texts. Now that I love you, my love for you never ceases. My love will endure until the end of Time. I cannot even call you my Beloved to your face, and even so, I love you even if we were never to be together. I love you because you are. I love who you are. I love how you came to be. I love your mind. I love how you show up in the world for yourself and for others. I realized that culture and society teaches us that love is only love if it results in our union – I don't believe that to be true. Love is love because I love. And I love you. And I feel joy because you exist.

It's genuinely wild how close and intimate someone can become in a short period of time. You meet them in one of the most truly difficult periods of your life, and they turn out to be your lighthouse to your tossing ship in the chaotic waters of the thunderstorm of your current life. And when you meet them in these hard circumstances, most often their love, support, and caring presence transform your current reality into a hopeful, bearable one and then once these circumstances pass, they don't enter the next chapter of your life. I'm that little girl who genuinely feels loss after reading multi-series books because I wish I could stay with my beloved characters for much longer. I'm not built for connections that last a season. I want people in my life forever, so we can be together happily ever after.