My Heaven in Her Heart

If there is heaven,

I think it is in her heart.

Days with her felt magical

but life doesn’t always

reward love with forever.

I love her,

but I am not choosing her

Not because love wasn't real

but because timing, distance, fate,

and circumstances became villains,

in a story where two souls

felt perfect for each other,

but somehow still was pulled apart.

Sometimes, I wonder

In one life, she stayed.

In another, she chose me sooner.

In another, she came to me in a different form

And in this one she came into life

only to teach me what it feels like

to love someone I cannot keep.

She watched me love her every day

and still decided to leave.

I gave every part of me,

one piece at a time.

And somehow it wasn't enough

for her to stay.

But my love for her will never become

something I regret.

Because I chose the love

I was able to give.

I gave it honestly, and completely.

And even if it was never

meant to become forever,

it was still love.

I will always be grateful

that, for a little while

heaven existed in her heart for me.

For

Sanji-Paul Arvind