29/06/2025
“I’m Not Asking for Forever”
Will you understand the meaning of my touch
if, by chance, I reach for your hand in the middle of a passing street?
We’ve always walked parallel,
different roads, different lives —
but on those rare days our paths brush…
can I still whisper in the silence that you were my best kind of love?
I’m not here to rewrite the story or chase another beginning.
I don’t want you to fall for me
in fact, I’ve accepted we are better where we are now…
apart.
But maybe — just maybe —
if our eyes meet across the noise of the world,
could we let that old warmth return,
just for a moment?
Not to stay — just enough to remember we once felt deeply.
Memories are flashes of tragedies dressed as lullabies.
I’m not strong enough for another chapter that ends in silence.
I’m just looking for milliseconds —
tiny bursts of what once was,
and that soft ache that reminds me I once had the capacity to love so wildly.
If ever our fingers brush again,
will you freeze?
Will your pulse stutter like it once did —
or will you pull away like nothing ever existed?
I know none of this makes perfect sense.
But I’ll say it still:
I’m not looking for your love.
I’m just trying to find the part of me that loved you so honestly,
so unconditionally.
Because maybe —
just maybe —
when she rises in me again,
this time she’ll learn to choose me.