Poetry by Rowan Evans

Author’s Note

If the first vow was silence, this one is surrender.
It’s the echo that follows devotion — love as burden willingly shouldered, as ache freely chosen.
Where the first vow offered peace, this one offers endurance.

It’s the second breath of a promise I never meant to make out loud — that I would take the weight from the shoulders of the one I love, not because I’m strong enough, but because I must. Because love, in its truest form, is not selfless — it is shared suffering, shared salvation.

I meant every word of the first vow.
And this one, too.

— Rowan Evans, Neo‑Gothic Confessional Romanticism

I Love You (Enough to Break Willingly)
Poetry by Rowan Evans

To let the ink run dry,
that’s what I said.
I’d give my voice
for your smile.
And I meant it too.

But even more than that,
I’d break willingly for you.

Give me the weight,
the pressure that you carry.
I’ll hoist it on my back,
I’ll walk with you.
Let your steps be lighter,
let your mind find ease for a while.

I’d carry it all,
even if it breaks me.
‘Cause I’d break willingly…

This is the second vow—
that I’ll never say outloud,
but still I’ll prove it…
I’ll prove it, somehow.
If it meant your life was a breeze,
I’d let it pull me to my knees.
I’d bend and break for you.

Even more than that,
I’d break willingly.

The Silent Vows

I Love You (Enough to Go Silent)
A vow written in ink and silence — a confession of love so deep it would sacrifice its own voice to spare another’s tears. “I Love You (Enough to Go Silent)” is a Neo-Gothic devotion from Rowan Evans, where the act of not speaking becomes the loudest declaration of love.