Photo by Tamyka Bell

To say

‘I love you like a sister’ may have meant
I love you like my own
flesh and blood,
or it may have meant
I was too scared to acknowledge that
I loved you to the edge of the earth
and back. Only when I got to the edge I saw
I had already come
full circle and I loved you
like a sister.

Originally published at blindrapture.com on January 13, 2104.