Our Safe Place

The walls in my room have seen everything
The silence, the laughter, the way I collapse when you are gone
This room was only drywall and shadows before you
Now it feels holy
Like the air carries your name
We never needed the world

Not lights
Not crowds
Not some perfect story
Just the flicker of a screen
Just the weight of you on the other side of the bed
Movies and shows and the sound of your breath
Were enough to undo me completely

I loved you before I could even say the words
I loved you in the way my chest felt too small
I loved you in the way the night didn’t matter anymore

As long as you were in it with me
You were my everything, my fire, my stillness
The one thing that makes me feel safe when nothing else does
If the world burns, if the ground opens
Let it all go
As long as I can keep this room with you in it

I don’t care about forever
I care about now, and now is you
Now is everything
And I will tear my voice raw if that’s the only way to make you understand