You have to be okay
Be okay for my best friend
Be okay for the future you have
Be okay so you can marry her
Be okay so I can stand there beside her
And I can cry seeing how happy you make her
You’ll be okay because you’re strong
I can’t see you wither away
She can’t see your strength fade
She can’t see your light go out
She can’t see her heart break in two in a hospital bed
You’ll be okay because your hands are scarred
You’ve lifted heavier weight than what’s on your shoulders
You’ll be okay because you’re stubborn
You’ll be okay because you’re so full of love
You have to be okay because this world needs you
It needs people like you
The world needs your love in it
You’ll be okay because we need you to be

I want to cry sitting in the floor with my dog
People aren’t like this
He doesn’t expect me to be creative with my words
He doesn’t need me to tell him he’s cute
I pet his head and I know all he sees is me
He doesn’t care if I cry for no reason
He doesn’t care if I don’t want to get out of bed today
When I stop petting him he puts his paw on my leg
He wants me to keep petting him
He isn’t afraid to tell me what he wants
What he needs
He is unabashedly candid
He doesn’t play games
He doesn’t hold back
People aren’t like this
This pure, this innocent
I want to cry
Because I wish I were more like him