Back To My Berry Poem by Teacher Kevin

Once, love hovered between us—
a quiet flame that learned to glow
but never learned to burn.
We stood close to beginning,
yet time closed its fist
before our hands could meet.

You were a thought I carried gently,
Berry,
a sweetness I never tasted,
only imagined on restless nights.
What we were,
remained a question the heart feared to ask.
Years drifted by,
life dressed us in different stories,
and I buried your name
beneath the weight of moving on.

Then fate folded our paths together again!
Your eyes found mine,
and the old silence broke.
The love that once lingered in shadows
rose, warm and familiar,
as if it had been waiting.

For a moment, we were brave.
We laughed like time had forgiven us,
held hands like yesterday never hurt,
And love? Love bloomed fast,
knowing it had little time.

Then truth arrived, gentle but heavy:
You were carrying tomorrow
for someone else.
A life growing beneath your heartbeat,
a boundary love could not cross.

I loved you enough to let go.
Enough to step back
before desire became damage.
What rekindled had to fade,
not for lack of fire,
but for the sake of life.

So I walk away with quiet pride,
carrying what we never finished.
Back to my Berry—
not to stay,
but to remember.
Some loves are not meant to last,
only to remind us
that the heart once knew how to hope.