I don’t want to hear,

for the

T H O U S A N D T  H

time

That I am somehow

WORTHLESS

W O R T H

L E S S

just because I fell in love with her

just because I kissed her

just because I wanted, for the briefest second,

to be able to show her how I felt

to be able to love, unafraid, 

for the first time