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Big Dee Nigeria
Writer | Speaker | Creative Voice. I tell stories, make calls & design confidence. @ Yabatech
In Relationships 3 min read
OUR KIND OF LOVE 💕
<p>This is not the love that leaves when the weather turns,</p><p>not the kind that folds itself quietly and disappears</p><p>the moment something harder than happiness arrives.</p><p>No. Ours is the kind that leans in.</p><p>The kind that looks difficulty in the face</p><p>and says, <strong>I've seen worse. I'm staying.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>*****</p><p><br/></p><p>This is the love that bears all things.</p><p>not because it has no choice,</p><p>but because it has chosen.</p><p>Over and over. In the morning when I'm difficult.</p><p>In the evening when you are.</p><p>In the long, unglamorous middle of a Tuesday</p><p>when nothing is beautiful</p><p>and we are still here,</p><p>still reaching for each other across the silence.</p><p><br/></p><p>******</p><p><br/></p><p>You are not borrowed to me.</p><p>You are not a season, not a guest,</p><p>not something I am trying on to see how it fits.</p><p>You are the decision I keep making</p><p>every single day I open my eyes</p><p>and find you still breathing beside me.</p><p><br/></p><p>******</p><p><br/></p><p>Our love does not wander.</p><p>It does not slide its eyes sideways</p><p>at what it cannot have,</p><p>does not entertain what it should not entertain.</p><p>When I say you are mine, I mean it</p><p>the way the earth means its roots.</p><p>Not possessive like a cage,</p><p>but certain. Grounded. Sure.</p><p>The jealousy that lives here</p><p>is not the ugly kind.</p><p>It is the quiet, warm kind that says,</p><p><strong>I see what we have. I will not be careless with it.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>*****</p><p><br/></p><p>And God, the nights.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your arms around me when the cold comes in under the door</p><p>and the world outside is grey and indifferent.</p><p>You pull me in like I am the only warm thing left.</p><p>My face against your bare chest,</p><p>the sound of your heartbeat steadying something in me</p><p>that has been unsteady since before I knew you.</p><p>Your lips at my temple. My jaw. The soft place behind my ear</p><p>where you have learned that I forget everything.</p><p>Your hands tracing me like you wrote me yourself,</p><p>like you are reminding my skin exactly who it belongs to.</p><p>We are tangled and unhurried.</p><p>We are ridiculous and glad.</p><p>We are the kind of people</p><p>who laugh in the middle of kissing</p><p>and do not apologise for it.</p><p><br/></p><p>****</p><p><br/></p><p>This love hopes all things.</p><p>It does not count the wrongs,</p><p>does not file them away for later,</p><p>does not drag last year's wounds</p><p>into this year's arguments.</p><p>It endures... not grimly, not with teeth clenched...</p><p>but with open hands</p><p>and a heart that has decided</p><p>that you are worth the enduring.</p><p><br/></p><p>****</p><p><br/></p><p>We are not perfect.</p><p><br/></p><p>But we are <strong>present</strong>.</p><p>We are looking at each other.</p><p>We are still learning the language of each other's silences,</p><p>still finding new rooms in each other</p><p>we did not know were there.</p><p><br/></p><p>****</p><p><br/></p><p>And on the nights when the winter is loudest,</p><p>when the cold presses its full weight against the glass,</p><p>when the whole world goes dark and indifferent outside.</p><p><br/></p><p>I am here.</p><p><br/></p><p>Chest to chest.</p><p><br/></p><p>Lips to skin.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your heartbeat the only clock I need.</p><p><br/></p><p>*****</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>And I would choose this.</strong></p><p><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>Again.</strong></p><p><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>And again.</strong></p><p><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>And....</strong></p>

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