We met quietly,
working side by side
on a project for my mother.

It seemed ordinary.
It was not.

Fondness grew in small moments,
and love followed—
steady as sunrise.

We learned each other
through ambition and advancement,
through storms,
through distance and silence
that asked us to trust what we could not see.

Yet even in the quiet,
our hearts remained.

So when we chose forever,
it did not feel like a leap—
it felt like coming home.

Some loves arrive loudly.
Ours arrived certain.
And in that certainty,
we knew—

We could do life together.