Still Love You

despite hoping to never see you again

since I see you in everything

love you still

while loving others

through you

loving in them

the things I learnt from you

looking up

I identify the bird by myself

oriental magpie-robin

love me too

in supplementary ways you have taught me

when being the bigger person

often the smaller one

love me still

when others I have loved

left too

love them still

you, through them

them, me,

her,

us,

us, them, me

merging into an

indistinguishable, incoherent whole

a collection

added to

stretched out, piled upon by my proclivity for affection

observing in each

things already

seen

and seeing them too in new eyes

yours, theirs, mine, ours

watching everywhere

tenderly collecting.

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-samjam 6/6/26 wrote this in the walk to the metro, from the office heading home. and in the metro. life feels okay again. might i even say, sweet. thanks for being here <3 toodles!