He used to answer everything.
With verses, with vows, with the urgency of someone who feared,
Silence meant absence.
But she didn’t need answers.
She needed air.
She needed time.
She needed someone who could hold the bowl while she bloomed.
So he learned to listen like sourdough.
To let the quiet ferment.
To trust the ache of waiting.
To believe that love, real love,
tastes better when it’s risen slowly.
