tonight we get bad news and i remember why i love you.

tonight my eyes well up and you pull my head to your chest. have i told you this is my favorite place in the world?

you smell like neoprene and grease after 6 hours in the belly of a submarine. i don’t think the smell of a wetsuit will ever quite wash off you. but i’m not complaining, i breathe it in deep.

tonight we get bad news and i am scared but you are strong. so i let myself drown in the sea of your surety. your cheek on my forehead, your words in my ear

it will all be alright. and even when it isn’t, we’ll always have each other.

i tell myself to remember this. this is why i love you.

i guess i never really forgot.