I choose.....

I choose to love you in silence 

for in my silence I find no rejection. 

I choose to love you in my loneliness 

for in my loneliness no one owns you but I. 

I choose to adore you from a distance 

for distance shields us both from pain. 

I chose to imprison you in my thoughts 

cause in my thoughts, freedom is for me to decide 

I choose to kiss you on the wind 

for the wind is gentler than my lips. 

I choose to hold you only in my dreams 

for in my dreams there is no end…

~Rumi

I struggle with wanting you all the time, 

so please don’t mistake my silence for indifference.

 It’s just I have to hold myself back because I feel too much. 

Too often. 

Too wildly out of my control.”   

      

 ~Tina Tran