Affection With Leverage

Have you ever realized the most dangerous version of you shows up when you actually care?

I love poetry because it tells on me. It doesn’t care about my intentions. It doesn’t care that I “mean well.” It just documents what I do, how I move, and what my feelings try to justify when I’m too close to somebody I actually care about.

Poetry has always been my safe place, the one place where my emotions can exist without me trying to justify them. It doesn’t flatter me or soften the truth. It shows me my patterns in real time and puts a spotlight on what I’m really reaching for when I’m not being careful.

When I’m on the phone with someone special, something in me starts reaching too far, like affection isn’t enough unless it has leverage.

That’s the part of me I don’t romanticize anymore.
The part that confuses intensity with devotion.
The part that treats boundaries like they’re negotiable if I care enough.
The part that thinks love is supposed to be a little invasive, because that’s what it learned.

So I wrote it down exactly how it sounds in my head when I’m not editing myself.

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Now to the poem,

No Boundararies

my love for her has no boundaries.
she pushes me away, and i don’t stop loving her,
i just learn how to hold it softly.

she says she wants space,
and i picture SpaceX
not to chase her,
but to remind myself distance can be holy too.

she says she feels empty,
and i don’t try to fill her anymore.
i just sit beside the silence
and let her be human
without turning it into my job.

she says she hates me,
and i don’t argue with the storm.
i just tell her she’s beautiful
because even anger can’t erase what i see.

she calls me crazy,
and i laugh a little,
because love makes poets out of people
who swear they’re above it.

she tells me to move on,
and i try,
not by moving in next to her,
but by moving back into myself
and leaving the door unlocked
in case she ever wants to be met gently.

my love for her has no boundaries.
and now i finally understand
that boundaries aren’t walls.
they’re where love learns respect.

If i can’t have peace with her, i’ll choose peace in me, and let that be what she remembers.

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