[▶] for safekeeping.

strawberries and wine

you are the sunshine at the end of a long day
after I've come home, eyes heavy, body drained
your voice is music to me, night lulling gentle dreams and
security
safe in the warm wisps of your presence.
you are comfort and love and acceptance and fire
and that flame never stops fighting
for everything you believe in
for me
for us.

I collapse into your aura with a sigh of relief
your reassuring gaze causing me to smile
streak of golden in the broken
kintsugi, you say
your laugh is ridiculous
bubbling over at the top into hysterical colour -
spilling over into my canvas of darkened grey and abstract points
softening, mellowing
a hint of light falls on the line where we meet.

you brighten my days with endless wonder
I question just how I ever lived before you
perhaps I would have remained a lonely traveller
lost and left to wander
the roads of my own frigid solitude.
you broke through the cold and gave me
a home.
in your soft gazes and stupid jokes.

you have no idea how my heart softens whenever I'm around you
hands stroking through your hair
am I lingering too long? it is so soft
and I could stare in your eyes like this forever
I'm just afraid my eyes may betray me.
I could love you. but I suppose I don't know if I could let myself do it
it would probably be too much.
so for now,
I let myself sink in this comfortable ambiguity
I love you so much. just not in that way.
I think something about that makes it that much easier
and that much more comfortable.
I think you're the best thing that's happened to me in forever.

honey wine in eyes
of endless wonderment. never to be seen

again