Sunsets With You
because some people feel like rest
You arrived at the hour when the sky remembered how to feel.
Everything softened, light gave in without resistance,
and silence sat beside me like it had been waiting all day.
You didn’t speak. You didn’t have to.
The air changed when you entered,
Like the world knew how to rest when you were near.
You weren’t warmth.
You were the permission to be warm again.
In your presence, endings stopped pretending to be losses.
They felt like something unfolding,
Like grief that had learned how to be gentle.
You didn’t carry me forward.
You just stood still long enough for me to move.
With you, the sky didn’t fall; it leaned in.
Time didn’t pass; it held its breath.
And I finally understood what it’s like
to meet a soul that settles in your bones
before you even know what to name it.
You never tried to be the light.
You became the reason the dark stopped needing a fight.
