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The Pause Before The Play
You asked me to love myself more, make a little room inside my heart for you. I cried for an hour straight, realizing I never learned how to take up space, how to stand in my own light without flinching from the glow. My fear of being rejected teaches me to reject the calm, to turn away from peace when love comes close, like I’m bracing for a collision on an endless neon highway. I’m scared that when you see me, you’ll change your mind and fade away. No one ever climbed my walls to show me beauty in my flaws, no one ever stayed long enough to see the signal beneath the static, the pulse under the noise. But you see me now, and I can’t go back to darkness. You remake me in your quiet way, and I won’t survive the empty world without the light you bring, the truth you give, the safety in your arms. Everyone leaves, so stay with me in this twilight realm, this breath held before the night rewrites us. I want to belong to something more, I want to belong inside your world. I’ve been trapped in old self-pity, thinking I don’t look like what they call pretty, thinking I’m a glitch in someone else’s dream, a ghost in the circuitry. But you see what I am, not everything I lack. And it terrifies me because I’ve never had that— something new, something kind, something that doesn’t vanish when the sun rises over the grid. I never wanted anyone else, never cared for strangers’ lines. Men with cologne and clever smiles made me feel like a novelty, a joke they’d tell later in locker rooms and shadows, a story meant to sting. But you don’t laugh at me. You don’t trick me. You just offer yourself, your life, your steadiness, the safety I can only find in your arms, the place where the world finally stops hurting, where the neon softens and the night exhales. And I will let you touch me in the places no one knows, the quiet voids carved by cruelty, the hollows I learned to hide. If you stay, I’ll stay too. If you stay, I’ll let myself be seen, let the walls flicker and fall like old holograms. Because you see me now, and I can’t return to darkness. You remake me in your quiet way, and I won’t survive the empty world without the light you bring, the truth you give, the safety in your arms. Everyone leaves, so stay with me in this twilight realm, the pause before the play begins, the moment the neon hum turns into something holy.
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