I don’t want promises painted gold at midnight only to peel by morning. I don’t crave fairytales that fall apart the moment reality touches them. I just want someone who looks me in the eyes and says — “I can’t guarantee always… but I can give you honesty. I can give you the kind of love that doesn’t flinch when things get messy. The kind that stays soft even when life turns hard.” I want real. I want the kind of connection that doesn’t vanish when I forget how to smile or when I show my scars instead of my skin. I want fingertips that trace not just my body, but my brokenness — and still choose to stay. Don’t promise me forever. Promise me presence. Promise me truth, even if it’s inconvenient. Promise me warmth that doesn’t run when I collapse at 2 AM. I don’t ask for perfect. I just ask for real. Because real is rare, and rare is enough to be everything.
“I see the way you carry pain in your silence, and strength in your softness. You don’t need to be loud to be powerful. Your emotions are not ‘too much’ — they’re poetry in motion.” By----- Astrum
i didn’t fall for your body — i fell for the way your silence trembled when you trusted me to hear it. i loved you past your skin, past the curve of your lips and the softness of your breath. i loved the cracks in your voice when the world grew too heavy, the storms in your eyes when you were too tired to smile, and the ache in your soul that you tried so hard to hide. Don’t you see? i was not memorizing your body— i was memorizing the map of your hurt. because love, i did not come to touch you like a tourist touches a city— i came to live inside you, the way a poem lives in the chest long after the page is burned. You were not a body to me. you were a home i wanted to return to, over and over, even when the doors were locked. — and baby, i still have the keys.
I don’t want a home.
I want a heartbeat
that beats louder when it feels me near.
𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓱𝓲𝓶 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘...
lulling waters
Whispers Between Pages By Astrum
I have always trusted the quiet of untold stories, the soft ache that lingers between what is written and what is merely felt.
I do not chase endings — I unfold them, slowly, like paper worn thin by longing and hands that know the weight of memory.
Somewhere between ink and skin, I found my truest voice — not to speak louder, but to listen deeper to the words that choose to find me first.
"The heart remembers what the mind tries to forget, especially in the quiet hours."
Astrum
ABOUT ME: Hi! I'm Astrum I go by He/Him. I don't really mind what you call me, as long as you're respectful and treat me like a person. My interests have been listed below but here's what I like to do on a broader scale. Poetries Poems Reading Writing On my blog, you'll mostly find Poems, Thoughts, Brainstorms. Hyperfixation in reading, writing in English, poems, thoughts. IMPORTANT: Feel free to reblog any of my original posts! Please be respectful when interacting with me. I joke around a lot, and would appreciate some patience. Being polite goes a long way! If I have reblogged one of your posts and you don't want it reblogged, please ask. I will take it down, no questions. If you're disrespectful, and I call you out on it, that's your queue not to interact. If I stop responding, you've probably been blocked.
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