Tina

A Poem by Harlequinholly

I wrote this drunk in a bar about my best friend.

Tina
Don't know what I would do without you.
Cry to myself?
Break down by my lonely?
Be alone wandering all these other roads I could have taken?
I sit here in this bar and thank "god" for you.

I thank you for holding my sorrow in your heart,
And holding my tears in your hands.

What would I do without you?
Walk this city yearning for companionship?
Thirsting for someone to listen and to care?
I'd be even more lost than I already am.

So let's be lost together.
Let's do this messy, chaotic, and unplanned.
Let's live how we want to, instead of how we think we should.
Instead of how we were taught.

Let's go big AND go home.

I'm done thinking I shouldn't think or feel something I do.
YOU are teaching me to breathe.
To breathe in, and breathe out, and just be.

You make me feel like it's okay to be sad about things I have been trained to not be sad about.

What would I do without you?