The Evolution of Love

Love sneaked in at an early age.

Love was proximity

raging hormones and 

unrecognizable emotions

love was just someone looking at you funny

and you not being able to comprehend why you feel the way you feel.

love was sharing a secret for the first time

it was telling someone something that you carried with you all through your childhood.

love was having an out-of-body experience

of your first kiss.

Love was also lies.

Love was coming to terms with the fact that

you probably are mediocre

gullible

and

maybe easily replaceable.

Then love changed suddenly, slightly.

Love was a long-forgotten face

Love was notes passed between classes

Love was staircases, open fields, and narrow alleys.

Love became a stolen kiss.

a cell phone hidden under the pillow

a 24-page love letter.

Love was pigtails,

love was hiding from your parents

it was fighting with your parents.

Love was adolescence.

youthfulness

hopefulness.

Love was the promise of spending life together

it was growing up together

it was morphing personalities.

It was shaping yourself

It was also denial

Love became ostrich syndrome.

Love became toxicity

Trauma

troubled past that your brain refuses to remember.

Love became a black box in your memories.

Love was wasted potentials

all the versions of yourself you could be but you didn't

Love was hating yourself

Love was Delusion

Love was dissociation

love was depression.

Love was different this time.

Love came suddenly

unexpectedly.

Love was a regular order of latte and mocha.

Love was the smith's song.

it was Arnob, SD Burman, boyce avenue.

Love stood from afar and asked very softly for permission to get in.

Love was then roaring, invigorating storm

Love was quiet thunder

love was like a sailor.

Love was a certain voice, a special name for you.

it was poetry at night

it was music, serenades.

Love was art.

Love was "i wanna hold your hand."

Love was teaching you to love yourself again

it was wanting to be a better version of yourself.

Love was self-care. self-improvement.

Love became hope again.

Love was building a future together.

Love was plans. Sooo many plans.

Love was everything you could ask for.

and then love left.