"Because I love you..."

“Because I love you…”

I tell you when you are wrong

I do not pour sugar on your wounds

while allowing you to bleed out,

simply because it makes you feel better.

I make sure you eat

Because I know that there is no “IG body”

worth tearing apart your temple

to replace it with a celebrity style mansion.

I watch movie marathons

Until my eyes force themselves close.

I would never let you mourn your breakup

with the third “love of your life” alone.

I remind you who you are:

Capable, beautiful, talented, adventurous

A gifted mind, a complex spirit, a luminous soul,

a force capable of stopping a hurricane with your smile

Because I love you,

I know the difference between

saying words and meaning them.

Because I love me,

I make sure you do too.