WITNESS

I will not love you conventionally
I will love you fully
Painfully and with all of my heart
Until I’m not myself without you.
I will see you for who you are
When you burn mercilessly
And I will love every ember
Even as they burn us both.

I will let you explore me
Allow you the key to my darkest rooms
So that you will know me better than most
And understand the skin in which I live

I will sink in this love
Until it drowns me in your apathy
But when you take me for granted
I will curse this gift I gave you.