Now I Know

By Naima Averoff

Oh my dearest,

I’m terrified.

I’m so scared to lose you my dear,

But you were never mine to lose.

I want to be the one that understands you.

I am nothing to you,

But to me you are everything.

The things I would do,

The things I would say,

If nothing was holding me back.

But I can’t,

I’m resigned to writing you letters that I can never send

I have set myself up to live a life of:

“Almost”