The Peace You Brought

You came quietly like peace I didn’t know I needed, slipping into the empty spaces in me and turning silence into something warm, something that finally made sense. I never noticed how heavy my world felt until your presence made it lighter, like a gentle breath after holding it in too long, like rest finding me at last. And now I understand love isn’t noise or perfection, it is this calm, this certainty that in a world always changing, you are the place my heart calls home.