I want to change everything except you.
You wanna change everything we 
know or knew-
including each other.
And then you changed that about me.
Another thing that we change together.
You'll never lose me 'cuz
I'd never lose you forever.
nothing you never knew before
was
something you don't need to discover

when you don't try to change each other at all
the changes are so small
they dissipate
they fill the empty space-
they go so far
who knows if they'll hit anything at all
all those changes
could have been my chromosomes
you made change for you

I think life is an argument where you can't pick sides

I think the ultimate act of parenting
is teaching
instead of watching
doting
protecting

and love is nurturing not creating

I think maybe

I think maybe
the ultimate act of love is combining to make a thing
like both of us

different from anything that ever was
to watch the ways we are both like everything else

to watch the things we watch
change the things we made
watch them
create and destroy things that are made of the things we are made of

things we made