01/11/2025
The world outside is asleep. Every street, every light, every sound â quiet. But here I am, awake, my mind buzzing like a transformer about to trip. Two weeks ago, I thought I was fine. She laughed at my jokes, we shared stories, little moments that felt like sparks. Nothing serious â just words, just smiles. But tonight⌠tonight it all feels like a cruel reminder that love never seems to stick to me.
I stare at the ceiling, tracing cracks, imagining paths that never existed. Depressed. Rejected. Overthinking everything Iâve ever done. Stress coils in my chest like live wires. And all I can think is⌠why me? Why do I keep loving and getting nothing in return? What did I do to deserve nights like this, filled with silence and shadows?
Iâve given my heart freely, unguarded, like I give my work â my hands fixing sockets, switches, and circuits. But unlike my wires, my heart doesnât respond the way I want it to. It hums, it sparks, it leaks electricity I canât control. And maybe thatâs the problem. Maybe I love too much. Maybe I am just too much for the kind of love the world offers.
I imagine a woman â someoneâs daughter â the kind who doesnât flee when I show my scars, when I show my fear. Someone who calls me hers, not just for a moment, not just for a story, but for *real*. Someone who stays when the lights go out, who holds my silence as tenderly as she would hold my words. Someone who doesnât make me question if Iâm enough because she simply knows I am.
Tonight, I let the pain sit with me. I wonât hide it. I let the memories, the âalmost-loves,â the disappointments, drift around me. Because even in this loneliness, I feel a small spark â fragile, but alive â whispering that maybe, just maybe, I *do* deserve real love.
I keep thinking about the future, about that day when someone will see me â all of me, broken and whole â and decide to stay. That day, maybe, Iâll finally sleep at night without questions rattling my chest. But until then⌠I stay awake, I feel, I write, I survive. Because this⌠this is the life of a man who loves too deeply, waits too long, and still believes.