We didn’t plan for this to start

We didn’t plan for this to start,
It crept in slow, then hit too hard
Now nothing’s like it was before
We learned to stop mid-sentence, pause
To love with care, to tiptoe thoughts
To carry truth through days with no room at all

Every feeling double-checked
Every want we tried to bend
Not because it wasn’t real
But because it was

We live in the pull, the gravity
Of wanting what we shouldn’t need
The ache of knowing we should step back
But we can’t, no we can’t
This love came like a quiet storm
Too fierce to leave, too wild to warn
We try to hold it, try to tame
But our hearts don’t play that game

Every glance, every touch
Says this is more than just a rush
We measure time, we ration breath
Trying not to cross the edge
But every pulse, every shake
Every hope we’re scared to name
Is screaming louder than our sense

Is it timing, is it fate?
Is it truth we can’t escape?
Reality keeps asking why
But our hearts don’t ask, they try

We live in the pull, the gravity
Of loving you in secrecy
We know the cost, we know the rules
Still we break them, still we do
This love is honest, raw, untamed
It burns even when unclaimed
We try to hide it, lock it tight
But it keeps waking in the night

Some nights wanting you
Hurts more than I can hold
Still I don’t let go
I keep it safe, unseen, untold
Reckless in the sacred way
Loving you in halves, in shades
In silence, in restraint
Still hoping love finds air to breathe someday

We live in the dark, we live in the quiet
Still our hearts refuse to deny it
Even breaking, even bent
This love won’t be unmeant
So we keep it fragile, unfinished, true
Trusting what’s this deep will make it through
And somehow, somehow, find its way
To breathe free someday