u/Infamous-Yam-4196

There was something about you I recognised long before I understood it.
Maybe it was your calmness.
Maybe the way your mind wandered through the world.
Maybe it was simply that our inner children found each other and sat down to play while the adults were busy making everything complicated.
I've met many people, but I've never felt that particular kind of recognition before.
I wish you could have seen yourself through my eyes for just a moment—the beauty in you that existed before life became heavy, dark, strange or difficult.
You'll never be a loner or an outsider to me.
And if souls came with zips, I'd have climbed inside yours years ago, curled up beside that quiet little boy, and told him he was never as alone as he thought

My heart tells me something that I can't explain and trust me I’ve tried

The same inner compass that recognized you before I even understood why.

The same inner voice that has carried me through every event, challenge, every turning of my life.
And it keeps returning with the same voice

Not yet. But it’s not over

Perhaps not tomorrow.
Perhaps not for years.
Perhaps not in this lifetime in the way I once imagined.

Because no matter what, the logical side of me, the sharper side of my mind who has never suffered fools hasn’t managed to overpower my heart, no matter how much distance or time

There is a thread between us that I have never been able to break.

I am tethered to you.
Not by obsession.
Not by fantasy.
By something I can’t explain

No one has ever occupied my mind quite the way you do.
No one has ever lingered in the spaces between my thoughts the way you do.

And strangely, I think you know that.
I think you've always known.

So for now, I’ll stop fighting it.
Stop trying to solve it.
Stop demanding answers from the future.

I will trust my intuition as I always have.
I will trust whatever force placed our paths together in the first place.

And if fate has one more chapter for us, it will find its way.

Until then I will carry that knowing quietly.

Just not now.
But it’s not over