Where My Name Feels Safe

You didn't ask me for explanations
You didn't trace my past in lines
You looked at me like I was present
Not a question waiting for time

Your silence wasn't an absence
It was space where I could stand
For the first time, I felt my body
Didn't need to ask for permission to exist

I spent years adjusting my edges
Trying not to take too much room
Then you sat across the table
Like I was already enough

I don't disappear when I'm with you
I don't perform, I don't pretend
My name sounds honest in your mouth
Like it finally learned where to land

No promises carved in stone
No fear of what comes next
If love is this kind of quiet
I can live inside it

I know love that comes like thunder
And love that leaves a Mark
But what you give me is simpler
A steady flame, not a spark

You don't ask me to be smaller
You don't need me to be strong
You let me rest in who I am
And somehow, that feels like home

I used to love from tension
From fear of being seen
Now love feels like breathing
No countdown in between

I don't disappear when I'm with you
I don't blur to fit your frame
My voice stays right where it belongs
And you don't flinch when I say my name

No rules written in fire
No future we must defend
If love can stay this human
I don't need it to be loud

Some loves teach you survival
Some teach you desire
But the rare ones
Teach you how to stay

I don't disappear when I'm with you
I don't trade truth for grace
I stand whole in the room
And you don't look away

If this is all love is meant to be
No stage, no disguise
Then let it stay exactly here
Where my name feels safe

I don't disappear when I'm with you
I don't trade truth for grace
I stand whole in the room
And you don't look away

If this is all love is meant to be
No stage, no disguise
Then let it stay exactly here
Where my name feels safe

No echo
No rush
Just staying