i don’t think i knew i was walking
from a whole, but not fully
not from you
it’s exciting because you love stories
you love telling them and hearing them
when and when i can’t carry myself enough to speak
it’s exciting because years from now
we’ve bottled bookmarks and pictured proof
we can illustrate every annotated line
it’s exciting because i get this whole other life
but i didn’t need to be without you
to know that i don’t want to be