Better version

 if ever love finds me again i hope it's

still you but the better version of you

if love ever finds its way back to me, i quietly hope it

still carries your name - but not the same version of

 you i once knew. i hope time has been gentle and

honest with you, shaping you into someone softer

where it once hurt, stronger where you once

hesitated, and wiser in the ways we both needed but

didn't yet understand. not because you weren't 

enough before, but because love like ours deserved

the kind of growth we hadn't reached yet. and if we

ever meet again in that version of the future, i hope

we recognize each other not by memory, but by who

we've become. i hope we choose each other with

clearer hearts, steadier hands, and a love that no

longer needs to be questioned or repaired. because if

it' still you - just better, just healed - then maybe this

time, love won't have to struggle to stay.