Maybe my heart stopped beating the way it used to when I saw you
But that doesn’t mean I loved you any less.
Maybe my bulletproof walls kept shooting up like a defense mechanism
But that doesn’t mean I lost faith in our timelessness.
Maybe I cry every time you embrace me
But that’s only because I didn’t really know how it felt to be loved by someone else.
Maybe I shove you further and further away
Because the irony is that I don’t want to lose you in the sundering ashes.
Maybe you and I are just a lie I tell myself
Because it brings with it fantasies in the place of nightmares every night.
But now that you are here with me in our sheltered little paradise
I have realized that I never needed training wheels to fly.
– Rubani Kaur
Photography Credit: Everton Vila
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