However
Keeping flowers in your shoes
Is just as impractical
As storing tacs in cereal bowls

We used to tuck each others necklaces away
Symbols of people
We so desperately wanted
The ones who no matter what
We thought we needed

One of us has gotten away from that idea
The other is still trapped there

I’m laughing
But someone
Somewhere
Just flatlined

And we’re so lucky to be here
But someone
Somewhere
Doesn’t feel that way

I’m not going to be around to witness the end of our planet
But someone
Somewhere
Won’t even make it as far as i do

And we’re so ******* finite
But someone
Somewhere
Can still live knowing this

Dating someone with trauma and an eating disorder
Is sometimes dating someone who you
Can't touch
Or
Can't see
Or
Is constantly hidden behind
Shield
After
Shield
Because why should you see the inner working of their mind
If it’s something they’re afraid of themselves

the angel on my shoulder
picked up smoking,
the devil on the other
took up yoga—

they don't know
how much they have
in common.