And I wish you were here or I was there or we were anywhere else
together
and you would say my name.

my name.

it would slip like water from your lips and i'd catch it with my outstretched hands and
my shielded heart.  and I'll breathe it in
I'll breathe it in like the oxygen i never get when you're around and you are rolling your eyes

"it's just a name"
letters strung together, arbitrary.
incendiary.

my name does not define me and neither does yours but when you say those letters
those vowels and consonants,

i melt.

because every 'k' is full of your love, and wrapped up in the a is our  history
and the l's are echoes of our laughter and that 'i' is everything you've changed me to be.

and so when you say so little you are saying so much,
even when you're saying it like, "oh, kalli"
some may hear my silliness and my blonde moments

i hear that you love our memories and laughter and i hear your pride.
all from when you say my name.

i'm sorry i won't ever get to hear that again.