Emotional endurance

 From You Can

They say distance makes the heart grow fonder...

But what they don't say

Is how many nights you'll fall asleep clutching a pillow,

wishing it were them.

How some days feel like entire lifetimes

because the hours drag when you're waiting

for a message, a call, a reminder that you're still connected 

still remembered.

They never mention the ache that creeps in 

during the quiet moments.

When you see couples holding hands in public,

and you smile but only because it hurts too much to cry.

They don't tell you how your mind creates a thousand versions

of their voice just to feel close again,

or how you memorize the way they said your name

just to hold onto something real.

No one warns you

about the emotional endurance it takes

to love someone from a distance.

How it tests every part of you

your patience, your trust, your faith in what you've

built together.

How it forces you to believe in things you can't

always see

but still feel with everything inside you.

And yet, despite the distance, despite the ache,

I would choose this love again.

I would choose you again.

Because this isn't fragile love.

It's not fleeting or shallow.

It's the kind of love that doesn't give up

even when the world feels too wide and the

silence feels too loud.

It's the kind that waits without resentment,

hopes without guarantees, 

and believes that someday...

the waiting will be worth it.

This is love stretched across time zones.

held together by promises and prayers,

strengthened by the longing, not broken by it.

And even though I miss you in ways I can't put into

words,

I know in my heart

some distances don't weaken love...

they deepen it.