Pāhonoa te oro

At exactly 3:17 AM is when she crosses my mind the most. She once said that if she ever truly loved someone, she would be thinking about them at that hour, and ever since then, I find myself staying awake a little longer, not because I can’t sleep, but because I’m hoping that somewhere, she’s thinking about me too. She’s not the type to say ‘I love you’ all the time, but she shows it in the way she asks if I’ve eaten, in the way she remembers the smallest things, and in the way she stays even wh