all of it, for the rest of my life

09.06.2024. flash poem

it’s almost 3 months
since i last saw you,
and that feels so wild
because i’ve been seeing you everywhere.

i can’t look anywhere and not see you;
even if i close my eyes, your sounds are there.
half of it is coming from all around me,
but a lot of it is within me now.

i felt so safe when i first met you,
and it was that feeling
that gave me the strength
to face a lot of things i’d been fearing.

i thought you’d give up on me.
it would have been very, very reasonable
to give up on me.
but you didn’t seem to.

i’m lying in bed
still searching for the moon
and listening to the sounds of you.

in my soul and heart,
there is no one else like you.
there never will be.

i am with you
for as long as you’ll have me.

i will remember these last few weeks —
the details, the feelings that washed all over,
the butterflies, the pain, fear, and hope.

i will remember all of it,
literally all of it,
or as close as any mind can get to doing all that…

i will remember all of it, for the rest of my life.