She & I | 25 May 2016

She is the only one
I felt truly powerless with;
She is the only person
I could talk to as I do with myself;
She is the only question
I couldn’t answer;
She let me stop thinking

When I’m happy
I still think of her;
And how it would
Make her happy too;
But it doesn’t hurt
Not anymore

I have grown
And I hope she has too

It would be fun to try it again
If only to see how we’ve changed;
But I may not need that right now
And she may not either

Maybe we’ll never need it

And I am
Finally
Satisfied

I no longer am afraid to think
And when I’m happy
I now think

When we met
The world became beautiful
And i was afraid to lose that beauty
Then she was gone
But to my surprise
The beauty was not
For she did not make my world beautiful
But showed me how beautiful
The world could be












I finally heard you say it.
Though not exactly

I felt it reverberate through the room
Into my chest, now tight with …