You sit there on that fallen tree like a dryad mourning a friend I reach out to hug you tears streaming down your face trying to escape your sorrow and despite how much it’s Killing Me inside to see you like this I’m smiling and even though I know you’re not you keep telling me that you’re fine or that “it’s OK I just had a rough day” but you can’t lie to me I know you better than you do like the forest I’ve been revisiting my whole life that I know like the back of my hand yet somehow I keep finding new things to fall in love with, new places that always bring back that sense of beauty and wonder new trees and fields with broken branches, or dips and flows and so many imperfect perfections. When yo finally calm down when your sobs are now just a gentle flowing of tears but still no less heart wrenching, you finally tell me after what feels like an eternity of silence that you “realized” that you are to unlovable and no one would ever want to be with you because you think of yourself as a horrifying train wreck I despite my best efforts begin to laugh a full blown chest shaking laugh that upsets you and almost puts you back to crying but as your sadness melts away into a rage of pure indignation and my laughter dies down I wrap my arms around you in a way that I see stops you cold and the smile on my face is one of something so pure you are baffled by what it could be I open my mouth and decide to just let my words flow, that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life because even if you are a train wreck you are the most beautiful one I’ve ever seen the raging storm you call a soul is so beautiful and I will always believe that the fucked up corners of your mind are wonderful and no matter what I tried to do I found myself unable to Not fall in love with you, you are the most sublime hurricane I’ve ever seen and I’ve only ever wanted to walk through all the damage and all the pain just to stand in the eye of your storm because I love you.