Can't Live Without

In complete honesty

I would love to say

That I could not live without my boyfriend

His soft brown hair swimming through my fingers like breezes through branches

But I could

I wish I could say I could not live without my mother

My eternal stalwart, my wellspring of love

I wish I could say

That I could not live without the beauty that brings color to the murmuring grayscale of the everyday

But I could

In this world, souls trudge through endless moons in the name of a beating heart and the will to drink of tomorrow’s sunshine

And to lose the waking dreams that are the ones I love

Would crush me like nothing I know

But I owe it

To all who walk the eons in the name of survival

To live without

I could not live without air, water, food, sleep, and space

The rest are exquisite privileges

That we never think we can live without, until we must