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INTIMACY (Into me, you see)
<p>When I love you, it is never softness alone.</p><p><br/></p><p>It is a dangerous surrender.</p><p><br/></p><p>The slow dismantling of every mask I forged to survive.</p><p><br/></p><p>The world sees my body.</p><p><br/></p><p>My strength.</p><p><br/></p><p>My armor.</p><p><br/></p><p>But you...</p><p><br/></p><p>You wander into the rooms I've kept locked for years.</p><p><br/></p><p>You meet the trembling child.</p><p><br/></p><p>You trace the scars I stitched shut.</p><p><br/></p><p>You discover the hunger I buried so deeply that even I forgot its name.</p><p><br/></p><p>Intimacy.</p><p><br/></p><p>Into me, you see.</p><p><br/></p><p>You look through me like a mirror and a window at once.</p><p><br/></p><p>Somehow, I become more visible in your eyes than I have ever been in my own.</p><p><br/></p><p>You don't just hear my words.</p><p><br/></p><p>You listen to the silence that carries them.</p><p><br/></p><p>You don't merely touch my skin.</p><p><br/></p><p>You reach my marrow.</p><p><br/></p><p>And the truths I've spent a lifetime imprisoning escape without permission.</p><p><br/></p><p>Loving you terrifies me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because it frees me.</p><p><br/></p><p>It feels like standing naked within my own soul,</p><p><br/></p><p>not with shame,</p><p><br/></p><p>but with peace.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your gaze is not judgment.</p><p><br/></p><p>It is sanctuary.</p><p><br/></p><p>To the rest of the world I am armored.</p><p><br/></p><p>Untouchable.</p><p><br/></p><p>Difficult to know.</p><p><br/></p><p>Around you...</p><p><br/></p><p>I no longer want to be defended.</p><p><br/></p><p>I place the keys to my scars in your hands,</p><p><br/></p><p>and somehow,</p><p><br/></p><p>my wounds stop being weapons</p><p><br/></p><p>and become stories worth telling.</p><p><br/></p><p>This is more than passion.</p><p><br/></p><p>More than desire.</p><p><br/></p><p>This is belonging.</p><p><br/></p><p>The rare and dangerous relief</p><p><br/></p><p>of being seen completely,</p><p><br/></p><p>flaws,</p><p><br/></p><p>fractures,</p><p><br/></p><p>fire,</p><p><br/></p><p>and still being chosen.</p><p><br/></p><p>With you,</p><p><br/></p><p>intimacy is not a feeling.</p><p><br/></p><p>It is a covenant.</p><p><br/></p><p>A place where pretending dies.</p><p><br/></p><p>Where obsession wears no shame.</p><p><br/></p><p>Where love is measured not by possession,</p><p><br/></p><p>but by revelation.</p><p><br/></p><p style="text-align: right;">It is me handing you the deepest version of myself...</p><p><br/></p><p>and hearing, without a single spoken word:</p><p><br/></p><p>"I see you.</p><p><br/></p><p>All of you.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I choose you still."</p>
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