I needed you

I don’t want to need you for the

rest of our eternal lives. I can’t let myself need

you in hopes that the things keeping us apart will

eventually dissolve like acid pouring over an invisible wall.

But I do.

I need you.

I need you like how plants need the sun.

I need you like oxygen in my bruised lungs.

I need you like a child needs their mother.

I need you as if you were the blood pumping into my steady heart, now beating with a new rhythm, with a new purpose to be yours wholly, again.

So, tell me you need me too…