rate my poems
The light came slow and honest, folding itself into the corners of the room like a secret finally told, and in that hush your name arrived before your voice, a small, steady thing that rearranged the furniture of my heart; I learned to measure time by the way your breath found rhythm with mine, by the soft punctuation of your laughter, by the way ordinary coffee and chipped mugs became sacrament when shared between us, and every ordinary day gathered meaning as if the world had been waiting for two hands to learn how to hold each other without fear, so we practiced patience and small mercies until the map of us was drawn in the margins of our lives, in the quiet places where promises are kept not with grand declarations but with the steady, unglamorous work of showing up, again and again, until even silence became fluent in devotion and the smallest gestures carried the weight of eternity We moved like water, not in a single rush but in patient currents that learned the contours of one another, carving channels through stubborn stone and old habits until the landscape of our days changed shape; there were seasons of flood and seasons of drought, nights when the sky seemed to close and mornings when the sun returned like an apology, and through it all we discovered that love is less a destination than a geography, a set of routes we choose again and again, sometimes by compass, sometimes by instinct, always by the small decisions that add up—staying when leaving would be easier, speaking when silence would be safer, forgiving when pride demanded otherwise—and in the end the river kept moving, carrying with it the flotsam of our mistakes and the bright shells of our tenderness, until the current itself felt like home, and we realized that the river was not only us but also the world we had built together, flowing endlessly toward horizons we had yet to name There was a night when thunder taught us how fragile we were, when words became stones thrown across a river and the sound of them echoed longer than we expected, but morning arrived with its ordinary courage and we found each other among the wreckage, hands sticky with regret and hope, and we began the slow, stubborn work of rebuilding not because we had to but because we had learned what it meant to be needed; love in that hour was not a blaze but a careful tending, a patching of seams, a willingness to sit with the ache and name it, to hold the other while the world outside continued its indifferent turning, and in the small rituals that followed—tea poured, a coat found, a hand offered across a threshold—we discovered that survival together is a kind of grace, and that the gentleness we cultivate after the storm is the truest measure of what we have become, a testament that even brokenness can be beautiful when carried in the arms of someone who refuses to let go You are the mischief in my mornings, the unexpected laugh that rearranges my plans and makes the day lighter, and loving you is like learning a new language that rewards clumsy attempts with surprising fluency; we trade small rebellions and private jokes, inventing codes that only we can read, and in those moments the world fees less like a list of obligations and more like a playground where two stubborn hearts refuse to be ordinary, where we dare to be ridiculous and brave in equal measure, where tenderness is punctuated by the kind of laughter that leaves us breathless and the kind of touch that says everything without a single word, so that even the mundane becomes a kind of celebration simply because we are together, and gravity itself feels less like a burden and more like a dance, pulling us toward each other with a force that is both inevitable and joyous, reminding us that love is not only serious but also delight, not only endurance but also play.
This is really beautiful. You have a way of making love feel grounded and real. This was lovely.
this is a lot and I actually sat here and read this i rate it 10/10 iann think I would sit here and read something this long and I did This is actually so good
pretty good, 8.9/10
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