Different Rhythm

We don’t talk like the stories do

No perfect words on time

Sometimes I need to feel you close

Sometimes you need the night

I feel everything as it comes

You hold it till it’s still

Different ways of loving hard

Different ways to heal

You don’t speak until you’re sure

You carry more than you show

When the weight gets heavy on you

You face it on your own

It’s never been about leaving

You just don’t want to break

You come back when your mind is clear

That’s the promise that I take

I had to learn your silence

Was never you pulling away

You had to learn my closeness

Is how I choose to stay

We love in a different rhythm

Out of time with the crowd

You go quiet, I give you space

Still feel you even now

Not loud, not perfect

But honest and real

A rare kind of love

We learned how to feel

I learned your pauses aren’t goodbye

They’re how you stay intact

You don’t run from what we are

You always come back

I’m not asking you to change

Or be more than you are

I just need to know you’re here

Even when you’re far

You think your way through storms

I feel my way through fear

Somehow we meet in the quiet

And that’s what keeps us here

We love in a different rhythm

Not rushed, not rehearsed

You steady the ground beneath my feet

I dive where it hurts

Not easy, not fragile

But steady and real

A rare kind of love

We learned how to feel

I don’t need answers when you’re breaking

Just come back when you’re done

You don’t need me to be smaller

Just stay when I’m undone

We don’t fix each other

We don’t burn fast

We burn long

We love in a different rhythm

And I wouldn’t change a beat

You walk with the weight of the world

I feel it and still believe

Not like the others

But steady and true

I learned your way of loving

And you learned mine too

Different rhythm

Same direction

Still here

Still choosing