When we asked about love,
they told us it is where the stars choose to land,
a place so vast and unreachable,
yet close enough to burn us with its fire.
When we asked about friendship,
they told us it is affection woven silently into the soul,
a bond that speaks even when words fail,
a hand that steadies us when the world tilts.
When we asked about hatred,
they whispered that it swallows the heart whole,
consuming not just the enemy,
but the one who dares to carry it.
When we asked about patience,
he said it is the art of bending time,
the gentle strength of learning to wait
without letting the waiting devour you.
When we asked about endurance,
they said it is the heaviest burden
yet the only weight that teaches us
how to walk through fire without burning,
how to carry sorrow without breaking.
And when we asked for nothing,
they told us we had already been given everything.
the breath in our lungs,
the beating of our hearts,
the chance to begin again and again no matter how much bullsh** the world throws at us.