we're never not written with the means to understand whatever waves, whatever lengths, you'd love through I'll know you in every one of them and hold every fragment that is you I'll sit beside your contemplations be the view that settles over your gaze because I never knew I could anchor somewhere steady and safe enough to be a taker for your eyes only for your eyes only for your eyes only

I know a place my soul could land and every time, you'd take my hand where once something was overlooked now seen exactly as it stood how you make space when it's crowded reminds me you deserve what you're owed even without light it's my birthright to have bruised, so I can understand you to survive, so I can look out for you to love, so I can witness every version of you

your knuckles loose in the face of loss you're blue and jazz and all across the room you wished had someone else that looked like me in your pretense your blue eyes flinched, I moved an inch further away but close and closer every look was sadness-tinged but you showed up like you'd thought it over heavy yet free, the way you conquered you've seen me and never wavered I can see your stitched-up injuries scarring but I'm confessing I'm never leaving your trembling lips traced back to me your way home is muscle memory it's all fake bluffing, my reckoning you come running and my beat's returning

i’m numb ‘till i’m aching for the sharp pain

if anything happens i love you