The Sweetest Surprise

It was getting late,
the moon hanging high like it knew secrets
I had not yet dared to speak.

I stood in the kitchen,
stirring too much sugar
into tea, thinking about all the moments we waste pretending not to care.

You laughed at something silly,
trying to coax me out of the shadows of my own mind.

Life had been rough,
leaving quiet bruises
where hope once lived,
but somehow you still knew how to make the silence softer.

I was too shy
to say what my heart wanted,
too afraid to allow something beautiful to begin.

But healing is strange like that—it arrives slowly,
and eventually,
when you least expect it,
life hands you a surprise:

the courage to smile again.

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With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,

— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫

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