A love like this

Where it began

Back when the ovens burned past midnight,

you carried boxes into the dark.

I wore an apron, counting tips,

you slipped me poems on paper scraps.

But I was restless, chasing distance,

while you stayed, holding the flame.

Distance / Waiting

Sometimes the ones meant to be

face the hardest battles~

not because they’re wrong,

but because the world

tests everything real.

The missed chance

Years later, a bar light,

we talked till the sky turned pale.

Your eyes still carried the fire,

but I wasn’t ready,

so I walked.

What love is

Love like this isn’t easy.

It waits in silence,

aches through distance,

grows in the dark.

An intuition

When I called, it was higher love~

a spark I thought had gone.

I brought my daughter to your house,

her hands digging roots in your soil.

We built a garden that summer,

watched her trust grow leaf by leaf.

Through storms

Nine years through thunder and loss,

through debts, miscarriages,

the weight of shadows.

Still we kept choosing~

again and again.

The fear now

Now sickness knocks,

the ground shakes.

And I wonder if we’ll bend or break.

But I believe in what we’ve sown~

a love the storm can’t overthrow.

The truth

This love didn’t just survive the storm,

it learned to breathe inside it.

Unbreakable~

because of it.

~ Jessi (free verse) #chronicles