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Poetry by Rowan Evans

Tag: independent love

  • I Don’t Need You (Dangerous Version) | Neo-Gothic Confessional Poetry by Rowan Evans

    Rowan Evans

    Author’s Note

    This is the same truth, spoken closer to the flame.
    Not a need. A choice—made with full awareness of the risk.

    Same poem.
    Louder pulse.

    — Rowan Evans

    Lone figure standing under a stormy sky, surrounded by swirling sparks, symbolizing independence, intensity, and passionate desire.
    “I choose you. Unbroken, unbent, and fully alive.” — Rowan Evans, I Don’t Need You (Dangerous Version)

    I Don’t Need You
    (Dangerous Version)
    Poetry by Rowan Evans

    I don’t need you.
    I breathe.
    I sleep.
    I rise, unbroken, unbent.

    I don’t need you.
    I am fire in the quiet,
    a storm that bends no sky.

    And yet–
    I want you.
    As witness.
    As echo.
    As the one who knows my chaos
    and calls it home.

    I could walk alone,
    and I would.
    But I don’t want to.
    I choose you.

    I don’t need you.
    But I want you so badly,
    it twists my ribs,
    spins my blood,
    sets my spine alight.

    I don’t need you.
    I will survive without you.
    But I don’t want to.
    I choose you.
    Again.
    Again.
    Even knowing the fire.

    I don’t need you.
    But if this is love,
    then I am all in.

    If you’re interested in more poetry, you can find it here → [The Library of Ashes]

    [I Don’t Need You] – Original
    A poem about choosing love from a place of wholeness—celebrating independence, intimacy, and the power of saying “I don’t need you, but I want you.”

  • I Don’t Need You – A Poem About Chosen Love and Independence

    Rowan Evans

    Author’s Note

    To the reader:

    This poem is a meditation on choice, autonomy, and intimacy. It’s about standing whole, unshaken, and still choosing to love someone—not because we need them, but because we want them. The lines explore that delicate balance between independence and desire, between survival and longing.

    It is a celebration of being complete in oneself while recognizing that closeness, when chosen freely, amplifies life rather than diminishes it.
    This piece is for anyone who has ever loved fiercely while remaining unbroken.

    — Rowan Evans

    “Silhouetted figure in twilight holding a glowing thread toward a distant figure, representing choice, independence, and intimate connection.”
    ‘I Don’t Need You’ – Choosing love from strength, not need. A poem by Rowan Evans.

    I Don’t Need You
    Poetry by Rowan Evans

    I don’t need you.
    I can breathe on my own—
    lungs have done it for decades
    without asking permission.

    I don’t need you.
    I can sleep alone,
    learn the shape of empty sheets,
    make peace with the cold side of the bed.

    I don’t need you
    to make me whole.
    I arrived here intact—
    scarred, yes,
    but assembled by my own hands.

    I don’t need your voice
    to steady me,
    your name
    to keep the dark from biting.
    I’ve survived worse silences
    than your absence.

    I don’t need you
    to save me.
    I am not drowning.
    I am not broken.
    I am not waiting
    to be rescued.

    But—

    I don’t want to breathe
    without you knowing the rhythm of it.
    I don’t want sleep
    that doesn’t reach for you
    out of habit, out of hope.

    I don’t want a life
    where your laughter
    isn’t stitched into my days,
    where love is only something
    I prove I can live without.

    I can.
    I know that.

    But I don’t want to.

    I want you—
    not as oxygen,
    not as shelter,
    not as a missing piece—

    but as the one
    I choose
    while standing steady,
    while whole,
    while free.

    I don’t need you.

    I just
    want you
    here.

    If you’re interested in more poetry, you can find it here → [The Library of Ashes]