She tore her ribs apart so you could
reach her heart and you called her selfish
for destroying herself to allow someone else
the ability to be filled with love by loving.
But what’s selfish about giving someone
the thing that she was deprived of,
because she knows how it feels to be without it?
Because she cared for you so deeply
that she didn’t want you to feel like that.
She is not selfish.
She is just someone with a soul so sad
she needs to fill the emptiness with love.
And darling,
there is nothing more selfless than that.