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

 

 

 

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