Some loves burn like comets
brilliant, brief, gone
Some loves are stars, still traveling long after they’ve changed
Ours was the second kind
This is everything I never said right
I was just a kid on a middle school bus
She turned around, my soul said “shush”
Not just a girl, a home, I knew it in my blood
15 years of friendship built a cathedral out of trust
Then I knelt before her with a zip tie on my hand
Chicken truck crashed ahead, chaos feathers, faded plan
Blood and ritual, rooster wed to Scorpio queen
The universe was laughing like it set the whole scene
I built a fortress from the promises I made when I was young
From the vows I spoke in work vans, from the songs we never sung
Every time she wandered, I reinforced the stone
Every time she came back empty, I made sure she’d have a home
I held a place for years
While she explored her fears
And I forgave her every time
Added bricks instead of tears
I found heaven in a person, not a place
God himself was witness to the grace
Love ain’t control, it’s letting go
It’s forgiving souls when they don’t know
Door stays open, not a wall
Cause a love like mine don’t know how to fall
Let me tell you how her absence almost took my soul
When nobody sees your breaking, you cling to what you know
I watched her choosing distance over standing in the storm
I watched our bed turn battlefield, then quiet, then just warm
I memorized her footsteps in the hallway late at night
I learned the shape of every silence when we didn’t fight
I kept on playing guardian while she kept changing roles
I kept on tending sacred ground while she redrew our goals
15 years, she was my best friend, middle school to lullabies
When the demons came for her, I stood my ground and never left her side
When the world had turned against her, I was anchor in the sand
Fighting family, fighting rumors, holding her with both my hands
So when the shadows came for me, I thought she’d understand
Thought she’d see the boy she met back then, not just a broken man
One moment, one confession, one fracture in my voice
And suddenly the life we built turned into just a choice
One story, one fear, one truth that made her choke
After years of my forgiveness, I was sentenced by the smoke
Her dozen wanderings, my one was too much
The angel pulled her halo back from my unsteady touch
I found heaven in a person, not a place
God himself was witness to the grace
Love ain’t control, it’s letting go
It’s forgiving souls when they don’t know
Door stays open, not a wall
Cause a love like mine don’t know how to fall
But hear me
This ain’t me saying you were heartless
This is me admitting I was blind
To think that love alone could hold you when your past rewrote your mind
Your framework said love equals effort, hurt means war
If he ever breaks the story once, he’s not the man you knew before
You spent so long trying to save us both
You forgot I was the kid on that bus, making universe-oaths
I found heaven in a person, not a place
God himself was witness to the grace
