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sun & flower

the sun promised
the flower
it would always stay

and the flower
believed it—

opening slowly
learning light
like love
was something
it could trust

I once loved
like I could disappear

like if you asked
I would become
whatever you needed

even ash

and you said
wow

like devotion

I have known
a kind of pain
that could have split me in two—
something sharp,
something relentless—

and still,
I am here.

I survived

I saw you today—after telling myself, over and over, that I was done.

That I would walk away and let you go like something I

It hits without warning—

not loud,
not dramatic—

just a quiet ache
that settles in my chest
like it belongs there.

I can be fine

Four months ago,
you were a stranger.

Now,
my heart remembers you
before my mind can forget.

128 days—
gone in a breath,
yet somehow

I made my way to you,
telling myself you felt it too—
a quiet lie I chose to believe.
You said you wanted me and

it’s strange
how it starts so simply—

two people
standing at the edge of each other
saying,
hi… this is who i am.

and we

I thought love
was supposed to feel like fire—

something that pulls,
that burns,
that keeps you reaching
even when it hurts.

And with you,