Inside Of Me

An anniversary poem

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Loving you is not a choice

Oh, I know it should be

We choose one another daily

Or so the theory goes

You’ve seeped into my bones

Like calcium, like collagen

The swish swish

Of my rushing blood

You crip walk

Through the living room

“It works

The anterior tibialis”

My God

What a weirdo!

It would take a lobotomy

To unlove you

(Some violence done to who I am)

My cells won’t stop dividing

My lungs won’t quit their work

You’ve become

An autonomic function

Breathe, blink

Beat, digest

Love you,

Nate

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Happy 12th Anniversary to my baby!