I Don't Want to Win
LOVELONGINGDESIRE
I don’t want to fight,
not to draw lines in the sand,
not to sharpen words like weapons,
not to prove who’s right.
I want to listen…
really listen…
to the tremble of your breath,
to the stories your silence tells.
I don’t want to win.
I want to understand
why the walls rise,
why the light dims
when we stop reaching for each other.
I want to hold space,
not to fix,
not to mold,
but to stand beside you
in the middle of the mess,
hands open, heart steady.
Let us learn each other’s weather.
The storms, the droughts,
the quiet mornings after thunder.
Let’s build something
that bends but doesn’t break.
I don’t want to change you,
and I don’t want to lose me.
I just want to work through it,
brick by brick,
until the house we stand in
feels like home
to us both.
