Won in life

 I won in life. I fell in love with a man

who broke my heart and then rebuilt

it with his own hands.

A man who did not run from what he did.

A man who chose the hard road of repair

over the easy road of walking away.

We aren't perfect. We are just both

willing to do the work that makes a

person worth staying for.

I won in life. I fell in love with a man who broke my

heart and then rebuilt it with his own hands. A man

who didn't run from what he did. A man who

chose the hard road of repair over the easy road of

walking away. We aren't perfect. We are just both

willing to do the work that makes a person worth

staying for.

He owned it without excuses. He sat in the mess

he made and stayed long enough to clean it up. He

learned my triggers, my silences, the way I go

quiet when I'm hurt instead of loud.

We fight, we heal, we talk it out at 1 am when pride

wants us to sleep on it. We apologize first. We 

choose each other again on the ordinary days, not

just the romantic ones.

Love isn't finding someone who never hurts you.

It's finding someone who's terrified to lose you, so

they do the work to keep you. That's the win.