thank you for helping me heal, even when you didn't break me.

suddenly, my grey skies turn gold. and purple. and blue.

and when my midnights died, my days were reborn - in the shape of you.

slowly stitching up the the cracks in my bedevilled heart,

you're breathing life into the places that had long fallen apart.

once blaring thoughts, now silenced by your presence,

the chaos within finds calm in your essence.

my wretched echoes of woe used to be fierce, unyielding

now they've faded into whispers with the love we've been building.

in your arms, i've found the quiet i never knew

my heart once fractured, now whole and true.

where shadows reigned, your light has gently poured

a love so deep, it's healing all that was scarred.

© anna marie atkinson, 2025

also from the lover girl collection