To love deeply without expecting permanence.
To find peace in the ruins of expectations.
To stop asking life for guarantees it can not give.
To respect the endings you didn’t choose.
To forgive yourself for things you could not prevent.
To accept that nothing we love is truly safe, and still choose to love anyway.
To remember beginnings are born from ruins, not from control.
To trust your hands enough to begin again.
Forever a Pretender 