Hello love.
I hope this finds you at a good time. 
I hope the space you take up in my chest 
Is covered in cherry blossoms 
And all the love you were never given.
I promise this won’t take long.

The place you now rest in my ribcage,
woven together with vines and fauna,
is my favorite place to find my strength.
I hope you know, the day I lost you,
the words stuck in the back of my throat  
unraveled so completely  
that I am still spewing their music. 
I hope that one day I can show you,
we are no longer the only ones who listen.

I hope somewhere along the way  
The wind grew tender as I changed. 
I used to fight with the spray of cold.
my callouses have come back  
but I stopped clenching my fists.
You didn’t ask me to, but I soften anyway.

I have never stopped searching
For the ones that would love you
for every flower petal and shard of tree bark
that you has ever brushed your fingertips
After all you made me, it is the least I can do.
You survived everything you said you couldn’t 
Traded your sanity for a chance at mine, 
and the only predictability you’d ever known 
to use as rash kindling for a wild inferno
that is now blazing its way up from my belly.

I miss you more than I could say.
When my chest cannot capture air,
and this fire in my stomach stutters in place,
when I wonder how long it would take
for the dirt smudged on my bruised cheeks
to reclaim my lifeless vessel,
I feel your heartbeat in my chest.
I feel you and I know
that you are proud
of this wildfire and wind I have become.

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