AngelsScabbedWings

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