You stood by me patiently waiting and broken
Everything seems to want to work against them, the slow crawl of unease that whispers outside the front door, the shadows of void that prevent them from seeing each other plain, but this time around they aren’t so easily shaken from their vows. She knows what life is like without him, and she’s learned from the revelation of those years - that she can lose everything else, but she can’t lose him.
The love she feel from him is a streaming ribbon that she gathers in greedy hands and shoves into her own chest. He can do whatever he wants, demand any kind of reparations, so long as that assurance holds true. It’s why she goes willing and easy into his embrace, arms readjusting to wrap around his shoulders and bury one hand in the soft edges of hair at the nape of his neck. “It was nothing you did,” she murmurs, pressed into his shoulder. Grief and shame sit heavy in her heart but stand like dancing shadows in the bond, scared to be seen. Reluctant to do more than avail him of his own misplaced guilt lest it steals this moment of tenderness she desperately needs. As they settle on the couch she curls evermore around him, legs tucked beneath his arm sideways in his lap. Anything to be closer, to languish in love she isn’t sure she deserves right now.
The love she feel from him is a streaming ribbon that she gathers in greedy hands and shoves into her own chest. He can do whatever he wants, demand any kind of reparations, so long as that assurance holds true. It’s why she goes willing and easy into his embrace, arms readjusting to wrap around his shoulders and bury one hand in the soft edges of hair at the nape of his neck. “It was nothing you did,” she murmurs, pressed into his shoulder. Grief and shame sit heavy in her heart but stand like dancing shadows in the bond, scared to be seen. Reluctant to do more than avail him of his own misplaced guilt lest it steals this moment of tenderness she desperately needs. As they settle on the couch she curls evermore around him, legs tucked beneath his arm sideways in his lap. Anything to be closer, to languish in love she isn’t sure she deserves right now.
So deeply in love with every face that I've shown
Hotaru
