Dear Nexen

Watching you sleep

Reminds me

How often

I forget to breathe

And not just in moments

When my breath

Is taken away

But in the moments

That are gray

In the ticking, tolling tempo

Of every day

 

And forgetting to breathe

Is like forgetting to love myself

And forgetting to love myself

Leaves me vulnerable

To the belief

That another person's love

Is more important than mine 

 

And I can love you

With everything

But when I succumb 

To the belief

That I am nothing

Everything

Doesn't amount to much

 

Yet here you are

Loving me 

With your whole heart

The only way

You know 

How to love

And I simply have to remember

I taught you that