u are mine

“you and i are a pair.
not one.
not three or four
two people in slow etched harmony.
there are lots of things two people
can and
cannot do.
like we can easily hold hands
and be patient with
one another.

like we can’t play
a lot of board games or
have a lot of opinions in a
conversation but

that’s okay because
we can bend the rules for some
games and
always pretend there are other
people in the conversation or even
just call my mom.

and we can just as easily lay in the
floor for hours
opposite one another
just as i did
so many hours of my life,
alone.

when only now i realize
it was something you could never do
with just
one person or
three or four.

or at the same time
no one at all,
like the absence i felt
in me
without
you.”