ALL MY MEN ARE YOU

I’ve loved you from the first moment,
the second I looked into your eyes.
I could try to say the opposite,
but my heart, it never lies.

She’s too honest, she overshares,
a secret too vast to confine.
An immense capacity for love she bears,
a weight that will always be mine.

So when the world has tried to take,
I’ve put my fragile armour on.
But even armour can bend and break,
one crush and all of it is gone.

I’m crushed, a crush too small a name,
yet it crushed each reason I had not to stay.
An eternal fire no force could tame,
brighter than stars, beyond fortune or fame.

You, I’d love… even if love never existed.
You, I’d love… though every dream resisted.
You, I’d love… even if the plot completely twisted.
You, I’d love… forever, unbroken, persisted.

For you, I’d gather myself together,
if the weight of your thoughts grew too much to hold.
I’d turn into light as soft as a feather,
a quiet comfort, both steady and bold.

I’d be the spark in the endless dark,
the steady when everything falls apart.
I’d heal the sorrow, relight the mark,
and shelter the flame that lives in your heart.

I’d become yesterday if it healed your tomorrows,
A love ever-burning, whatever life borrows.

I’ve loved you from the moment we first met,
a truth I carry, a vow firmly set.
And if I never saw you again,
I’d still write you into my fictional men.

Each hero shaped with your light from the start,
each one carrying pieces of my heart.
Not loss, not distance could steal what is true
for every story of mine would still lead to you.

Even if galaxies burned into dust,
this love would remain, unshaken, robust.
Beyond every ending, beyond every star,
what’s mine, what’s yours is forever, ours.

-MILI GUPTA