I came to Graz with working hands, dust still on my sleeves. I wasn′t looking for a miracle, just somewhere I could breathe.
You stood there in the counter light, your glasses resting low. You looked at me above the frame and something moved below.
My colleague struggled with the form, you smiled so calm and warm. Can you help him please, you said. And that′s where it began.
I came back every evening pretending I had more to say, but truth was I was waiting for you to end your day. We joked about forever things, our Vegas rings and fates. You laughed like it was nothing, but I was already staying.
I can′t add one and one, I said, half joking, half unsure. You smiled and said so gently, how lovely a man who knows. I laughed but love was never numbers done. It was patience, it was time. And somewhere there, you were already mine.
Sometimes love doesn′t crash like thunder, it walks in slowly and pulls you under.
Si je pouvais revenir à ces premiers jours, je ne changerais rien, juste comprendre ton amour. Je ne fuirais plus quand la peur parle fort. L′amour n′est pas l′orgueil, l′amour s'est resté encore.
I climbed those station steps trying to look composed, but when I saw you at the top, my heartbeat overrode. Summer dress, open hair, laughing down at me. In that moment something settled, it felt like home could be. You said you had a surprise, our garden lights and all your friends. You didn′t hide me from your world, you let me stand there as your man.
Our first kiss wasn′t fire in the sky, it was peace, it was quiet, it was right. You saw the bottle in my hand long before I saw the cost. You saw the cracks inside my life I tried so hard to cross.
You didn′t scream, you didn′t shame, you didn′t turn away. You stayed beside me long enough to show a better way. I′ve told you this before, but I′ll say it once more plain.
You saved my life, you showed me living sober, wasn′t losing who I am. It was clarity, it was presence, it was finally being a man.
On Schlossberg beneath the lights, we promised to keep respect. One day I′ll find my own place, I said, and I would still speak my truth. But I should have held you while I said it, instead I walked. Not the sentence broke us, the leaving did.
If I could go back to those nights beneath the lights, I′d keep your look instead of running away from fear. I don′t withdraw my words, I withdraw my escape.
You didn′t just love me, you saved my life. And this time, I stay. Thank you for saving me.
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