Promise Ring

We met by accident, like strangers written in a quiet fate,

Just passing by, no spark, no trembling shake.

Then I saw you again in a small café on a rainy day

You smiled at me softly, and something shifted in the air that day.

I told myself, “He’s just someone I met,”

But your laugh stayed in my mind like a song I couldn’t forget.

Now I’m falling slow, falling true,

Into something warm that feels like destiny with you.

But doubt still whispers in the corners of my mind,

Even though you gave me a promise ring and said our lives would intertwine.

You’ve told your family, you’ve told me too

That someday we’ll stand together and say “I do.”

But we still don’t know when that day will bring,

And I’m holding on to faith…

and your quiet, shining ring.

You take my hands like you’re protecting something fragile inside,

You say I’m the one you prayed for, the one you want for life.

And God, I want to believe it with all that I am,

But fear still walks beside me like an old familiar friend.

Maybe love grows slow, maybe love grows sure,

And maybe you’re the answer I’ve been waiting for.

You call me your future,

you call me your home,

And I feel it too

in my heart and in my bones.

But until the date is set,

my hopes and doubts dance in the same breath.

Still I’m falling slow, falling true,

Into everything I’ve ever wanted with you.

You’ve promised forever, and I believe what forever means,

Even if the calendar hasn’t caught up with our dreams.

Someday we’ll stand under wedding lights in spring…

But for now, I hold your hand,

and this quiet promise ring.

Maybe fate begins in the smallest things

A café, a smile,

and a gold ring.