How do you say something you don’t understand? 

And how do you say something you’ve said a hundred times already? 

Saying the same thing over and over differently,

And still not being able to explain it. 

Your smile ignites fires in me like a match struck in a room full of old letters.

Each one has your name on.

Your eyes are a quiet place I keep accidentally calling home.

You are gravity,

Always pulling me helplessly inward. 

Your care undoes me gently, 

A loose thread that knows exactly where I have been holding my breath. 

Your passion makes me want to meet myself on the precipice of who I want to be.

My restraint is left looking for excuses.

I’m standing in an ocean,

Realising too late that I never learned how to swim. 

So just let me float with you forever,

No longer scared of the depth.

As long as your arms are the horizon.