hearing and feeling are technically the same thing so when we talk on the phone

i can pretend it’s as good as touching you

 

it’s like how i used to think it was weird that we celebrated people’s birthdays long after they died,

but now i kinda get it

 

it’s like how when people are whispering i always hear your name or how

love is something we have and

not something we do.

 

it doesn’t really matter, hope is kinda the whole point. more than anything i just want you to believe me when i say it’s ok. 

Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf is an artist and graphic designer living in New Orleans. She is the co-founder of tenderness, yea. She has been published by Metatron, Spykids Review, Witchcraft Mag, and elsewhere. Twitter: @chlamydiot666.