see,
there’s this little glimmer of hope inside me
i’ve been starving to death it for *years* now, trying to burn it out.
because i know you owe me nothing
and i know friendship is probably all this is ever gonna be
and i need to find a way to be okay with that,
and i was so, *so* close to being okay with that.
but recently you’ve been feeding it
not too much, so little i didn’t even notice it was happening
a sliver of ‘i need you’ at 2am,
a morsel of inside jokes and nicknames
a crumb of ‘it’s always been you’
and i know they’re just empty calories
i know all they do is make you feel good in the moment
but the glimmer doesn’t care









