​A Sanctuary, Not a Sin

(A Duet of Two Souls Who Loved Beyond Permission)

I. His Voice – The Man Who Loved Too Purely

I come to you with a heart

that has forgotten how to hide.

Every beat it makes

is your name whispered into the dark.

When your eyes meet mine,

I swear the world pauses-

as if even time wants to listen

to what passes silently between us.

Your lips…

they are where my unspoken ache

finds its first breath.

Where the storms I never confessed

finally rest their tired wings.

They call my love a sin—

but how can something feel sinful

when it makes the soul gentler,

truer,

braver?

I have nothing to take from you.

I only know how to give-

and in giving,

I find myself whole.

If my devotion feels heavy,

tell me.

I will hold it softly,

never on your skin,

always in your breath.

But if it feels like home…

if even for one moment

you hear your own heartbeat

lean toward mine-

then know this:

My love is yours.

Bound, bruised, breathless-

but yours.

As long as breath remains.

⸻

II. Her Voice – The Woman Who Loved in Silence

You speak to me

and everything inside me trembles-

not from fear,

but from the unbearable tenderness

of being seen so clearly.

You ask why I hesitate.

It is not your love I fear-

it is its purity.

The world does not know

what to do with a man

who loves without taking.

When you melt against me,

my dear heart,

I melt first.

Your surrender unravels the walls-

the ones

I never admitted I had.

If I pulled away,

it was never rejection—

only the terrified instinct

to protect a love

so sacred

I feared the world would stain it.

Your gaze…

it holds a devotion

that could lift a life

or ruin one.

How could I not be careful

with something so holy?

But listen to me now:

Your love is not too much.

Your longing is not wrong.

Your tenderness is not a flaw.

If you are a storm,

I am the shore waiting for you.

If you are a prayer,

I am the breath that completes it.

And if the world ever tells you

your love is forbidden,

come to me.

Lay your head on my chest

and hear what my heart

has been whispering all along:

You are my sanctuary.

And loving you

could never be a sin.