I never knew the world could hum So loud, so soft, so wide, Until your name became a rhythm In the quiet corners of my mind. Your laugh is a tide I cannot fight, Pulling me toward something impossible, Something holy, fragile, alive— A fire that leaves no trace but warmth. I watch the way your eyes catch light, Like secret constellations in the dark, And every glance feels like a story I’ve been waiting my whole life to read. Being in love with you is a map I cannot follow, yet I wander gladly. Each word you speak, a key To rooms I didn’t know existed Inside me, where your name echoes endlessly. When we touch, time bends; The seconds stretch, trembling, infinite. I feel both lost and found, All at once, and it terrifies me How complete you make this incomplete heart. I dream of you in the quiet hours, Not because I need you there, But because my soul insists On tracing your shape in the dark, On tasting the gravity of your existence As if it could stay with me forever. Love, in its rawest form, is chaos Wrapped in soft light, And I welcome every storm it brings, Every tremor, every sigh, every impossible hope That maybe, just maybe, you feel it too. I do not ask for eternity— I only ask for this: A moment unbroken, A glance uninterrupted, A heart that races In time with mine, Because to be in love with you Is to finally recognize The music I’ve been searching for In every silent room of my life. And if I could speak to the universe, I would say: I choose this love every day, Even when it burns, even when it aches, Even when it changes me in ways I cannot yet name. Because it is yours, And I am yours, And nothing else feels real. By me lisakhanya vumendlini a.k.a Lizzy