Where Love Heals

my heart felt heavy
this morning

like something in me
remembered
before I could stop it

and then

you reached out again

soft
simple
familiar

like nothing had changed

and for a moment

I felt it

the pull
the ache
the version of me
that would have answered

that would have gone back
just to feel close again

but I know now

you never chose
all of me

only the parts
that were easy
that didn’t ask

for depth
for truth
for more

and I am not
made to be loved
in pieces

so today

even with the ache
even with the weight
even with the memory
of what I wished it was

I stayed

I did not go back

and that

has to mean something

JMS