Friday, 5 September 2025

Razor's Edge

They say trust is the most important thing in love.

Cute. Simple. Wrong! 

Look at the wreckage it leaves;

more scars than the people in it could ever carry.

They made love soft, flawless, eternal

left us bruised, on the floor.


Trust is not a cushion for your heart.

It is not infallibility.

It is not a vow that you will never bruise each other,

or fracture in the collision of perspectives, baggages, spines.

Trust is taking each other as you take life:

the goods, the bads, the hurt, the healing, 

the toxic, the magic, the unbearable, and the surreal.


Hurt is inevitable.

Two bodies, two minds, two histories

crash like storm-tossed ships

in a night without stars.

And here, 

between the fractures,

love begins.


Not gentle.

Not forgiving.

A predator that lurks in the wreckage,

breathing in the pauses,

carrying every bruise, every betrayal.

Real trust

is acknowledging it all

and choosing it anyway.

Even when escape is easier.

Even when survival feels uncertain.

Because you can run,

but you can never quite escape

the inevitability of things.


Repair is no soft act.

It is a dance on the edge of ruin,

a conversation with chaos itself.

And sometimes, 

if terror or tenderness permits,

we survive.

Not healed. Not whole.

Just two damaged goods

still standing in the wreckage,

still daring

to call it love.

Knowing it could in cold blood kill us.

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