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Oyetayo Oyewumi
Student @ Federal University Oye-Ekiti
Student @ Federal University Oye-Ekiti
Finally,Rest
<p><br/></p><p>What is love, really, when you strip it all down?</p><p>Is it losing yourself when there's no one around,</p><p>Or is it a quiet that settles your chest,</p><p>A place where a tired heart finally can rest?</p><p>I sit here and wonder what it feels like to know</p><p>That someone's holding onto you and won't let you go.</p><p>To stand in a crowd full of faces and noise,</p><p>And only ever tune into one single voice.</p><p><br/></p><p>I look at you, and the world goes quiet,</p><p>The noise in my mind turns off its big riot.</p><p>I don't see the others, I don't care who is there,</p><p>It's just you that I want, it's just you that I care.</p><p>I want to talk to you until the morning appears,</p><p>To tell you my hopes, to show you my fears.</p><p>I just want one person to choose me the same,</p><p>To smile in the dark when they whisper my name.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to be loved in a way that feels right,</p><p>Not a love that keeps me awake in the night.</p><p>I want to be certain, I want to be sure,</p><p>To know that what we have is gentle and pure.</p><p>No endless guessing, no playing a game,</p><p>No wondering if tomorrow you'll feel the same.</p><p>I want to feel safe when I hand you my heart,</p><p>Without the quiet terror of us falling apart.</p><p><br/></p><p>I don't want my chest to ache or feel tight,</p><p>Staring at my phone screen late into the night,</p><p>Overthinking silence when a message doesn't come,</p><p>Wondering if I'm the only one, or just someone.</p><p>I want to hear you say the words and just breathe,</p><p>Without searching for a hidden reason you'd leave.</p><p>I want to trust the sound of your voice when you speak,</p><p>And know I am the only comfort you seek.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want us to build something steady and real,</p><p>A simple, deep truth that both of us feel.</p><p>To grow side by side as the fast years go by,</p><p>I want to be the place where you run when you're tired,</p><p>The only warmth your heart ever desired.</p><p>And I want you to be that same shelter for me,</p><p>The one place on earth where I'm allowed to just be me.</p><p><br/></p><p>I don't want a story built on worry or dread,</p><p>Or dark, messy shadows inside of my head.</p><p>I just want a love that is simple and clear,</p><p>A love that brings happiness instead of a tear.</p><p>No heavy questions, no fear of the end,</p><p>Just my favorite person, my partner, my friend.</p><p>I love you, with all that I have in my chest</p><p>I just want to be loved back, and finally rest.</p><p>— The End —</p><p><br/></p>
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