TONI MAHFUD†

“You wish to find a man who looks at you quietly, with soft reservation and gratitude. You don’t need the sweeping gestures, that paths of petals, the fists of diamonds. Those things are often less about making you happy and more about making you pliable. You need him to look at you past the reinforced walls that you’ve built around yourself, to the woman who is waiting for someone to say “I don’t love you for what you can do for me, I love you because your mere existence makes everything better. Just knowing that you exist, somewhere in the world, makes everything better.””