The first time I saw you was nothing special.
We greeted each other.
We smiled politely
and exchanged names.

But then I saw you again
and my world shifted.
You brought on change
with a single name.

I want to know you
so that I can never forget you.

Because I breathed deep
for the first time
in a long,
drowing,
suffocating,
airless year.

I saw light for the first time
in a really long while.
I was screaming soundless tears.
And for the first time
in my weirdly extraordinary life,
I was heard.

You ease my heartbreak.
You give me life.
I just need one more thing:
all of you, for forever.

I want your naked, bare, raw self;
I will love every bit,
until my last breath.