Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
a love like that,
it lights the Whole Sky.

-Hafiz

I know he don't like it, but I cried because... as smart as I am, I still have trouble processing that another human being is capable of loving me as much as I have the capacity to love him. And to hear him say it, over and over, was really overwhelming. Like, i remember hearing someone say, I was never in love with you. That felt like being punched in the chest so hard your wind got knocked out of you and then, just when you thought you caught your breathe... it still throbs. But hearing "I love you" meaningfully, and repeatedly- felt like the moments when I got my breath back. Intense... and maybe a little painful too. Not because it hurt to be alive, but cause being dead before was so excruciating. thank you for that.