the sun to my sunflower

a f****n love poem dude why not i love love

i feel your presence in the calm before a storm

the connotations of which don’t match the way i perceive them,

beautiful veins of lightning dance across the misty sky at dusk

just as we dance in the shadows of your dimly lit living room

hearts booming, like thunder, elated

our minds quiet, at peace

the air remains light

it is twenty years down the line

i wake up next to you,

my vulnerable body tangled in your sheets

i roll over knowing that you lay just as exposed

it is in this moment that i realize

keeping my heart open to you was the best decision

this mess of a brain has ever made

how lucky it is to find comfort

in a life that has left me barren

a sense of profound longing,

a homesickness despite being home

it is in you, my love, that i find my solace

like the will of a sunflower, so far from its sun

it is you that inspires me to grow