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Student @ Adekunle Ajasin University,Akungba Akoko Ondo State.Nigeria.
Lagos, Nigeria
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Harmless Crush
<p>“I Thought the Crush on Him Was Harmless”</p><p>just a soft breeze passing through my teenage heart,</p><p>a quiet smile I could fold away</p><p>like a letter never meant to be sent.</p><p>I told myself it was nothing serious,</p><p>just a name that sounded sweeter than others,</p><p>just a face that stayed a little longer</p><p>behind my closed eyes at night.</p><p>But years have passed like seasons changing clothes,</p><p>and still, he lingers.</p><p>I have grown.</p><p>I have met new faces, shaken new hands,</p><p>laughed in different rooms,</p><p>cried for different reasons.</p><p>Yet somehow, in the silent corners of my mind,</p><p>his memory sits still, unchanged, unaged.</p><p>I thought time would dilute him,</p><p>like sugar dissolving in tea.</p><p>Instead, time preserved him,</p><p>like a photograph that refuses to fade.</p><p>It is strange how someone</p><p>who never held my hand</p><p>can still hold my thoughts hostage.</p><p>Strange how a story that never began</p><p>still feels unfinished.</p><p>Sometimes it’s not even him I miss,</p><p>but the version of me</p><p>who first learned how to feel that deeply.</p><p>The girl who blushed at nothing,</p><p>who replayed conversations</p><p>as if they were love songs.</p><p>Maybe that’s why he remains.</p><p>because he is tied</p><p>to the innocence of my becoming.</p><p>To the trembling excitement</p><p>of discovering my own heart.</p><p>I thought the crush on him was harmless.</p><p>I didn’t know it would echo.</p><p>Didn’t know a simple affection</p><p>could root itself so quietly</p><p>and grow in silence.</p><p>Even now, years later,</p><p>his name can still knock softly</p><p>against my memory,</p><p>and I answer.</p><p>Not because I am still waiting,</p><p>not because I am still hoping,</p><p>but because some feelings</p><p>do not need permission to stay.</p><p>They simply do.</p>
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