*Passion and Love*

Passion is fire.

It’s the quickening.

The way your name in my mouth

feels like a promise.

It’s staying up to chase a dream

and staying up to chase you.

It’s hands that don’t want to be still,

eyes that keep finding each other across a room.

Love is water.

It’s the staying.

It’s making coffee just how you like it.

It’s listening to the story for the third time

and laughing anyway.

It’s choosing you on ordinary Tuesdays,

not just on the nights that feel like fireworks.

Passion says _I want you now_.

Love says _I want you, always_.

And when they meet —

when fire learns to be gentle

and water learns to burn —

that’s where magic lives.

It’s building a life and a home

out of late talks and inside jokes.

It’s fighting hard and forgiving faster.

It’s growing, not just glowing.

Passion pulls us together.

Love teaches us how to stay.