1. Morning Devotion
I wake and your name is already there,
a quiet hum beneath my ribs.
I inventory your possible joys,
your possible sorrows—
each one a prayer I wear like skin.
What does the light look like
through your window today?
Does it catch the gold in your eyes
or pool at your feet, patient as a promise?
2. The Theory of You
Some say love is mathematics—
a problem to solve, a sum of parts.
But you? You are the exception,
the equation that unraveled
every axiom I once believed.
I stopped asking why the universe
folded you back into my life.
Some gifts don’t need reasons—
only hands to hold them.
3. Inventory of Miracles
You, teaching my hands to unclench.
You, a sanctuary with no closing hour.
You, the reason I no longer confuse
loneliness and solitude—
one is a wound, the other a bridge.
(And you? You are the crossing.)
4. The Alchemy of Us
I used to think love was fire—
something to warm you or burn you.
But you are neither spark nor ash.
You are the oxygen,
the invisible thing
that makes the burning worth it.
5. Elegy for the Old Me
I mourn nothing of who I was before you.
Let the past stay buried—
its hollowed-out gods,
its hunger for proof.
You are the only evidence I need now.
6. Postscript
If this is all we get—
this fleeting, fragile now—
let me say it plainly:
You made the dark feel temporary.
You made my heart a place
worth coming home to.
J
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