I need your heart to jump-start mine

I can't remember a time
When my heart could beat without yours.
When oxygen was essential for me to live.
When I could lie in bed all day without your hand to hold.
When water was vitality.

It seems to me
I need your heart to jump-start mine.
Your lungs stopped me drowning in the air.
I need your skin so I don't turn to dust and blow away.
Your kiss stopped me choking on my life.

So it isn't such a stretch to think
without you here

I would
disappear.