the world never fell out from under you, no you constructed safety nets like trampolines because you were always paranoid about the end of the world and since i was your world you wondered about the end of me but i don't think you thought very hard about the end of you the one that got tangled in dreams bigger than yourself; the ones that validated you and made you feel you had something worth struggling for, a rope on your back to secure your insecurities as you scaled the molehills you made out of mountains did you ever think about the girl who had nothing to prove the girl who showed you everything and for some reason that made you the bigger person it's just that- i was peanut butter and you were two years old i guess your mom never told you how to grow up and decide if you had phobias or allergies because i wouldn't have minded the way the hives erupted across your face like volcanoes without a cause i would've rubbed your back with chamomile lotion and tried to read your sores like braille-- but i was peanut butter and you were two years old and i guess your mom never told you how to grow up and decide if you had a peanut allergy or commitment issues (perhaps you had both) perhaps you were so scared of the reaction you would have to someone who would lace your veins with her own blood if you needed, someone who was so willing to hand over her perplexities and let you examine them like a rubik's cube- is that what i was because i always made it perfectly clear that i loved you because i don't like seeing you sore and angry like that i hate the way i hear your bones sigh when you move the sticks and stones were never really a problem for you but i think the burdens of my words broke you a little the words that always made it perfectly clear that i loved you and i guess you would always ask why but i always thought that some questions don't need an answer and the only thing i could think of was that if people really are dust like the Bible says, then i was a molehill and you were a mountain