L O V E.

on the days when the pain makes it seem like the only escape is your demise,

on the days when your heart hurts and hot tears leak from your eyes,

let me be the one to dry them with you,

let me be the one to tell you, “baby, it’s going to be alright”

cause even if you don’t believe it,

even if you question it with every atom in your body,

even if i’m wrong, at least, please, let me be there

because you see me better than i see myself,

you see the silver lining in the clouds of despair that i bear

all i want is to be a fraction of what you are to me.

i don’t want you to save me,

and i don’t want to save you,

i want us to save ourselves in each other’s arms

i want us to find the hope that lies within us that the gods say they put in our hearts,

i want our individual journeys to converge when we’ve both figured it out,

but it would be ridiculous of me to say that i do not want to figure myself out in your presence

and on the days we fight, and our words are filled with spite,

let these words of mine remind you, that at my core is love,

a love whose intensity words can only wish to describe.