There's sanity in watching you sleep at night
My anxiety sometimes doesn't let me
but watching and listening to you breath
breath after breath
slow and soft and unconscious breathing
it's enough to melt everything else away for a while
it's enough to make me sane again
I don't get to see it often
only when my house is closer to point A than yours
or I ask you to come keep me company
But I know soon point B will always be our apartment
We feel so lost right now
trying to find a place to call home
But I believe we'll find it
It'll be overpriced and small
I don't know where we'll put all your shoes
or all my camera equipment
I imagine our clothes will be packed in our suitcases forever
because there won't be any closet space
We'll be too close to the freeway and the trucks will keep us up at night
and our upstairs neighbors will be breakdancers or something
and they'll always be on the wrong timezone
but none of that will matter
as long as you hold me
and as long as every night
I get to hear your breathing
Mar 25, 2018
Mar 25, 2018 at 3:54 PM UTC
There's sanity in watching you sleep at night
My anxiety sometimes doesn't let me
but watching and listening to you breath
breath after breath
slow and soft and unconscious breathing
it's enough to melt everything else away for a while
it's enough to make me sane again
I don't get to see it often
only when my house is closer to point A than yours
or I ask you to come keep me company
But I know soon point B will always be our apartment
We feel so lost right now
trying to find a place to call home
But I believe we'll find it
It'll be overpriced and small
I don't know where we'll put all your shoes
or all my camera equipment
I imagine our clothes will be packed in our suitcases forever
because there won't be any closet space
We'll be too close to the freeway and the trucks will keep us up at night
and our upstairs neighbors will be breakdancers or something
and they'll always be on the wrong timezone
but none of that will matter
as long as you hold me
and as long as every night
I get to hear your breathing
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