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

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.”