Falling in love with you has never felt like something I decided. It was more like something that decided me. Like my body already knew how to breathe you in before I even understood what it meant. It is my favourite thing I have ever done and the only thing I will ever want to keep doing. Again and again. Even when the weight of it feels too much. Even when I think I have given everything I have. I would still wake up with the same smile. I would still let myself fall like the first time never ended.
If tomorrow stripped me of everything I own. If silence was all I had left. I would still choose the ruin of loving you. Because who am I without this hopelessly sensitive heart. Who am I if not the person who feels too much. Who believes too much. Who risks everything for the warmth of being close to you.
There is nothing simple about it. It is reckless. It is heavy. It is tender enough to hurt. But in the breaking there is life. In the ache there is proof that I exist. And if I could only ever do one thing forever it would be this. To fall into you. To keep falling. To make the fall my home.
Because without you I am only a body moving through time. With you I am a heart that remembers what it means to be alive. And that is why I will never stop. Not in this life. Not in any other. Always you. Always the fall. Always the smile that comes with it.
-aaditya.
Aaditya Bajpai 