A Love Letter to My Ribs
Dear Dastardly Darlings,
I appreciate with an unknown intensity your persistent ways
I trace your edges as they push up against my snow kissed skin
But you do so with a gentle contentment
Thinking perhaps you will see the light
Or perhaps you never will
And instead will become the light
You have a self worth that is neither
Negligible nor encompassing
You mind not whether you are able
To proclaim yourselves
Or whether you simply reside stealthily beneath my layers
Of decaying determination
You protect with nothing given
Your sole duty to encase my lungs
In bone mixed with breath
As I whisper words of encouragement
You insure that I fill myself with clear
confidence
Which I breathe in every moment of every day
As long as you stay
Because every breath is a merit badge
Not determined by my size
But by my resilience
To not only exist
On this spinning paradox of paranormal pessimistic people
But live through it
Live for it
I love you for this
I love you for being everything
That I need to be
For using your razor sharp edges
To cut through my justifications
And insecurities
To cut me free
And to stitch me whole again
Your pointed tips needles
That weave my veins together
And keep me flowing along
This path of reconstruction
I love you
For loving me
And seeing what
I could not see
I am Flawless
You are flawless
We are no longer
A meticulously melancholy
Mess