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the love of family

friends and community

is just as potent

as the love

of a romantic relationship

i don’t need fixing

i will be searching for answers my whole life

not because i’m a half-formed thing

but because i’m brilliant enough to keep growing

everything necessary to live a vivid life

already exists in me

most of my life has been spent

with the two of us touching

skin to skin

our nights together

and sometimes our days

you carried me when my limbs refused to

when i was so sick i could not move

not once did you tire of my weight

not once did you complain

you’ve witnessed all my dreams

my sex

my writing

my weeping

every vulnerable act of my life

has been with you

the two of us knee-deep in laughter

and when i’ve been a fool to trust a fool

made love on top of you

left for days only to

return empty-handed

you always took me back

when sleep abandoned me

we lay awake together

you are the embrace of my life

my confessional

my altar

i went from girl to woman on top of you

and in the end

it will be you—old friend

delivering me to death well rested

- there is no place more intimate than a bed

you didn’t lose it

happiness has always been here

- you just lost perspective