subject line: I’ve never listened to this much Al Green before.

the shower floor

“I think I was like the moon, most myself in the dark of night, running away from your bright light of day. We kept chasing each other in circles. You loving me and me loving you but never at the right time and never enough. Now you’re leaving in a few months on deployment and I can’t stop the all encompassing fear that tells me I might not see you again. I was too scared to love you while I had you and am too scared to love you now that we face uncertainty. ”