Do you want me to love myself

More than I love anyone else

I tire of me sometimes

Just like I tire of you

Only I’m stuck with this

Can’t leave this body, this voice

Just momentary distance

When I close my eyes for silence

Walking down the street I felt such joy to be alive

This morning I swear, there’s a truck idling beside my bedside

Oh the contrast

I run with it

I work with it

Get familiar with the seasons of my life

The mountains I’m asked to climb and climb and climb

The constant clichés that repeat themselves

Till I no longer ask, Why?

There is no reason

Just breath

And a beating of the heart

One foot in front of the other

Then the other

That’s all