You were my calm in the storm
without ever realizing it.
I was anxious before I saw you.
Shaking hands,
restless thoughts,
my heart moving faster than my mind could catch up to.
And then you’d walk over,
look at me,
talk to me for even a moment—
and somehow everything in me would settle.
Like my nervous system recognized you
before I even had the chance to think.
Even after all this time,
my heart still softens with you.
I still think of you.
I still believe in you.
And maybe the strangest part of all of this
is that you calm me
without even realizing it.
Slow Burn Poetry 