Love
From partners and friends to nature and small moments. Isn't it beautiful how we can fall in love with everything around us?
With You
With you,
I know love is considerate, patient, and kind
I know love comes from effort:
To understand, to be present,
To do things beyond our comfort zone
I know love comes with hurt,
And that we grow from it
Even if it doesn't feel like it at the time
To love, is to learn
About you
About myself
About how to navigate life together
Because “alone” is never an option
With you,
Loving you comes easy
Your love is life's greatest gift to me
And I will be forever grateful
To have had the privilege
To fall so completely and effortlessly in love with you
Overflow
It’s days like these
When I am tired, worn, and drained
From play, laughter, and fun
That my heart feels so full
Of each any every emotion
That comes with love;
It makes me wonder how I ever thought
Living was boring and dull
When there existed people
Who radiated life themselves.
My heart was made to love
But it never prepared itself
For the abundant amount
That comes from the overflow
Of emotional gratitude;
Appreciating these people,
Absorbing these moments,
Allowing this peace
Where there is not a single doubt
Not an ounce of dread
Of feeling like I don’t belong
Because how could my heart
Swell with so much love
And fill me with so much life
If I wasn’t where I was meant to be.
The World Has Mercy
It’s beautiful to think
I am sharing the same timeline
Of the most wonderful people
I will ever meet
That fate chose
To put these people
In my path of discovery
People so similar to me
Yet so different
Meeting by chance
And loving by choice
I am forever grateful
To whatever force
Has shown mercy
To give me
Walking sunshine
And colorful skies
After gloomy days
Traces of You
Traces of our past will lie in my heart forever
It will lurk in the deepest parts of my mind
Even when I think I have long forgotten
It will creep through familiarity and reflection
It was you who taught me love
How to be vulnerable, to trust, to hurt
You have scarred my heart
With the best love and harshest realization
Our time is a memory, a legacy
Of who we grew to be
And how we grew apart
And I mean what I say
That you’re always in my heart
I Dreamt of You
I sometimes dream of you
When my darker times appear,
Like a mindful blanket
Placed around my heart.
I can never see your face,
The one that brings
A kind of love
I have only yet found
In these wishful fantasies.
We are simply walking—
Talking mumbled nonsense
But it is everything.
The overwhelming sense
Of belonging
Of being loved
Of being—with you.
You come at different times
Different scenes
But each time,
I know it's you.
And each time I wake,
I am hopeful, that maybe
You dream the same.
But I know it is just a dream,
No conscious love
Could be so pure.
But I still can’t help but hope.