We’re Not Easy to Love

 

Potrait By Luca Ponsato


We’re Not Easy to Love


We are not easy to love

we are like doors that remember every storm

and still hesitate before opening.


Loving us is like holding a letter

written in a language that changes

each time you read it.

Some days it says stay,

some days it whispers run,

and often it simply folds into silence.


Our hearts are not gardens with neat fences;

they are wild fields where seasons arrive unannounced,

where winter sometimes blooms in the middle of April.

To love us is to walk without a map

and trust that the horizon is not a lie.


We carry echoes the way old houses carry dust

invisible, but always present,

settling on new memories before they can shine.

You do not see the weight,

yet you feel it in the way we pause

before accepting kindness,

as if joy were a fragile glass

we have dropped before.


We are not easy to love

because we question warmth

like travelers questioning a beautiful road,

wondering what it demands in return.

We search for hidden prices

in gestures that were meant to be free.


But loving us is also like watching dawn

arrive after a stubborn night

slow, uncertain,

yet undeniably real.

Once you learn our shadows,

our light becomes something rare,

something earned like a secret kept for years.


We are constellations drawn with trembling hands,

not perfect circles but meaningful chaos.

To love us is to accept that stars

do not arrange themselves for comfort;

they arrange themselves for wonder.


We are not easy to love

we are libraries with missing pages,

oceans with quiet undercurrents,

songs that begin in a minor key

and refuse to resolve too quickly.


Yet for those who stay,

for those who listen beyond the noise,

loving us becomes less like a burden

and more like learning the rhythm

of a complicated, beautiful language

one that does not promise simplicity,

but promises depth.

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