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I Thought It Was Love
<p>Maybe it was love,</p><p>Or something close enough to make my heart believe,</p><p><br/></p><p>The way your name felt softer</p><p>Every time it sat with me.</p><p><br/></p><p>I didn’t plan to notice you,</p><p>It just happened, unaware,</p><p>Like my heart grew curious</p><p>Anytime you were there.</p><p><br/></p><p>You spoken and something shifted,</p><p>Not loud, but deep and slow,</p><p>Like a quiet kind of magic</p><p>Only soft hearts get to know.</p><p><br/></p><p>I started saving moments,</p><p>Little things you’d say,</p><p>Replaying them like music</p><p>At the ending of my day.</p><p><br/></p><p>I told myself, “It’s nothing,”</p><p>But my silence said much more,</p><p>Because I found myself waiting</p><p>For footsteps at the door.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe it was love,</p><p>Or just the way you made me feel seen,</p><p><br/></p><p>Like I existed louder</p><p>Somewhere in between.</p><p><br/></p><p>No grand confessions,</p><p>No promises to keep,</p><p>Just a thousand tiny feelings</p><p>I was learning not to speak.</p><p><br/></p><p>Mo ro pe mo mo ife, (I thought I knew love)</p><p>But how could I be sure?</p><p>When everything felt fragile,</p><p>And nothing felt secure.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I called it “just a moment,”</p><p>Just a phase that came and went,</p><p>But my heart kept quiet records</p><p>Of the time we never spent.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe that’s the beauty</p><p>Or the danger of it all,</p><p><br/></p><p>How something never spoken</p><p>Can still feel so full.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe it was love,</p><p>Not the kind that loudly stays,</p><p>But the kind that leaves a question</p><p>You remember for days.</p><p><br/></p><p>And even now, I wonder,</p><p>If I named it something else,</p><p>Would it have stayed longer</p><p>Or still become a story</p><p>I only tell myself?</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe it wasn’t love</p><p>But whatever it was</p><p>It changed me.</p>
I Thought It Was Love
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