You were the first to know
A stranger
I slit open my throat
Shared my voice
And laid it
In front of you
A brick
Whose weight only I had ever known
Until those days

The beauty in you
Kim
Is that you didn’t care
About me
More than
I needed you too

You smiled at me
Laughed with me
Wandered with me
And asked me questions
That I was too
Afraid
To ask
Myself

In you
I discovered the sound
Of my beating heart
Through words
That had long been
Silenced
But never
Forgotten
Only hidden
In the
Folds of my
Loneliness

You okayed me
And let me be true
With a
Soft
Force
That none before you
Had been able
To prove

The beauty in you
Kim
Is that you let me
Be
Human
So I could
Listen to
A me
That wasn’t previously
permitted
To exist