Why Side Arise

You have saved me

In a human faith

I believe in you

More than any force in the universe

If there may be a greater flowing through you

So be it; you have taught me to believe

That happiness is possible

Like a countermeasure to atomic mathematics

Inertia without mass impervious to time

Dancing to bend light in reduction of explanations

To the nucleus of what love is

That I am incapable of not wanting what is best for you

Even in the absence of myself prepared for extradition

Back to the writing desk and lone wolf howls

I am exculpated in your refusal to put us into a bastion

Of what must be remembered sparingly

For to recall daily what cannot be witnessed

Would be a tortuous strife of longing

You have challenged me to be a better man

To love myself enough to be happy

To see not cancer, but muscle

I feel oxygen is your skin

Reminding me what human is

The paradoxes of atheism and Christianity dancing

Ten thousand thoughts at once

Straight forward and through the road

We each had the chance to become hardened stone   

I have seen the minute before dawn

Grasping your hand to say the word family without flinch

To do more than accept a blade in the gullet

To provide a home, meals, stability, and honest joy

To have the honor of being by your side

For my empathy with you is unbound

To know the frankness, the starkness of life’s planks

Water’s clarity of that, which we all come,

But react in varied course

I in motion inside, you out

I calm the out, you the in

Balance like positioning lips

You are my person

I choose you

As family, as always, as love