SAY YOU LOVE ME, WITHOUT SAYING YOU LOVE ME

There’s love in the air.It’s biting...To think that the first two lines were written years agoFeels fitting nowas I begin something for you,considering the age of our love. Mi Amani, you mesmerize me.I know I’m crazy to give in to this,but I can scarcely help myself.You make friendship too easyand maybe it’s my faultthat I fall so quickly. You reel me in without trying. When we talk, I’m transportedto that quiet land of lovers and butterflies.I can already see what we could be between you and me.Can you? When I listen to you,my heartbeat slows and melds into the ease of your voice.You remind me of ease, simpler days when nothing weighed as much as adulthood does. You carve my smiles just by being.You remind me of what love should feel like.Right at this moment, It feels like playbut i fear that nothing has ever felt more real.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/Intimate_moments_of_love_and_light_2.png"/>Today, I put pen to paper for you.You’ve made me feel like I can dream again.And you, you are the dream.Sweet,until I remember I must share my best friendwith the man from that strange place. It took you no time to grab hold of my heart.Every moment with you dampens my fear of love.You see me,smart, funny, a little goofy.But in all honesty, you make my smarts shine,I laugh because it's you, and your crazy exposes my goofy. When I love, I love fully.I hope you do too.So fully that I’ve accepted the risk of being hurt,because at least I would have been loved right.If that day ever comes, i hope you'll gather me in your arms and beg me to stay.Apologize firmly but truly because being apart from me shreds your soul,Grab onto me for dear life and treat me regally like your Queen.Love me loudly, gently, like I am yours.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/Intimate_moments_of_love_and_light_3.png"/>If after all else, you are my God-ordained man,I would kill you, then love you.Why didn't you find me sooner than all the pain that came before you. The world has been cruel.Will you be soft with me, help me, heal me?Can I lean on you and let my shoulders rest?Can I be too much, and still be enough?Can I love your shadows as deeply as your light?Can I be your favourite moment, just for, well, everyday? There’s a playfulness in you waiting to be found.Can I be the key? There is so much I want to know, so much I want to ask,But you remind me that we have time. And I hope even in friendship, I make you shine.I hope you remember what true love should be.I hope you never lose sight of the treasure you’ve always craved.I hope your wildness borrows the moon’s lightand glows like dragon scales in the dark. I hope our rivers merge, and become whatever God has written.

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