ONLY YOU
I don’t want just the smiles you wear in sunlight,
I want the weight you carry in silence.
I want the past that broke you,
the dreams you stitched from your own hands,
the moments you don’t share with anyone else.
I want the tired version of you.
The busy, distracted, distant you.
Even the you that doesn’t know how to love back -
I’ll still choose that version,
again and again.
If loving you means heartache,
I’ll hold the pain like prayer beads.
Because to love you - fully, entirely
is still the happiest sorrow I’ll ever know.
- Ekta
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