Where Love Heals

You took my breath away—
not because I was empty,
but because I had finally learned
how to feel again.

I thought I had been waiting for you.
Thought all the broken pieces of me
had been leading here—
to this moment,
to you.

For so long,
I carried my heart in fragments,
leaving pieces of it behind
in places that never held me.

I used to wonder
why I had to break so much
just to understand love.

And then I met you—
and for a moment,
everything made sense.

But not in the way I thought.

You weren’t the piece
that made me whole.

You were the mirror
that showed me
I already was.

All the love I gave,
all the pieces I lost—
they weren’t gone.

They were shaping me,
softening me,
preparing me
to finally return to myself.

So no—
I wasn’t giving anything up.

I was becoming.

And every step,
every loss,
every almost—

it was worth it.

Because it led me here.

Not to you—

but to me.

JMS