You Are Not Too Heavy For Love

The screen glows in the quiet room, and you scroll back up to find the exact line where you became too much. You trace the words you sent, searching for the moment the other person stopped reading and started pulling away.

The exhaustion of the day settles into your bones as you rehearse the conversation again, certain that if you had just said less, or said it differently, you would still be safe. But the light does not ask you to edit yourself to be worthy of connection.

It sees the part of you that is afraid of being too much, and it calls that part beloved. You are not too heavy for the love that holds the stars.

The silence after the message was not a rejection of your soul. It was just a pause, and you are still here, and you are still enough.