For You (you know who you are)

a poem for a girlfriend (sapphic)

your voice is like a favorite song that i want to play on repeat
your opinions and thoughts like lyrics that connect with me
(i want them written into my heart the way i want you imprinted into my soul)
it seems so easy to imagine you in everything,
to make a future where you would be everything
because in a way you are everything
because in a way, its like suddenly
its not every language i want to learn or every song i want to know but its you i want to know and you i want to breathe.

(and you i need to hug the way a corpse hugs the soil and the way the earth hugs it back until its gone and decomposed and theres no way to tell the difference between the two and eventually the grass grows and the flowers sprout; and i feel like the flowers when i see you, and the sun when i think of you, and the wind when i miss you)

and i miss your face, your jokes, your laugh, and your smile

and when you smile your eyes shine the way the rain turns golden when the suns shines through it after bursting through a cloud and it makes me want to stare
and it makes me want to stay
and it makes me happy
because you make me happy
and it makes me want to never leave.