“I learnt the hard way to be the woman I am now, to be patient, not to have very high expectations.. but damn it his blue eyes staring at me, his kisses and hands.
Every night I try to reassure myself that I am seriously being careful with my heart this time, that I’m not going to fall in love so easy, that I will protect and never settle until I’ve got what I know I deserve, that now that I have fallen in love with myself I won’t accept less than that love and more.
But then he holds me, we’re walking, Dublin is beautiful and for the first time I can see the whole city from a romantic lens, his accent and passion for all the things he grew up with and loved, still loves doing, and all of the sudden I want him more.
I want him, forever? Too soon to judge but I can see it. I can see him in that old man in the table behind us taking his beautiful wife out on a date, it’s like seeing the future. But was that old lady me?
love is sweet poison: atticus / the wicked king - holly black / love slowly kills - adrian borda / fresco / romeo & juliet act 5 scene 3 - william shakespeare / the death of sophonisba - giambattista pittoni / seerat / the aeneid - virgil
