To Bridget, Just As You Are

To friends.
Just as they are
To relationships.
Just as they are
To words
Just as they are
To discussions.
Just as they are

Not ignoring, Not transcending, Not replacing.

to laughter
to tears
just as they are

to spontaneity
to monotony
just as they are

to pondering deeply
to daydreaming lightly
Just as they are

To 1-am conversations and four hours of sleep
To watching TV and eight hours of sleep (in college?!)
Just as they are


To puddles and puddle-jumping.
To writing English papers about that stupid space system
Just as they are

to eerie circumstances that give you a reality check, catharsis
to the rest of the time were you just “are”, control
Just as they are

for past and present and reality and reconciliation of the three.
Just as they are

To the beautiful and
deep, the
superficial and
mild
equally valid they are.
Not all poetry
or thinking
or learning
or stretching

We can enjoy silly puddy, too.

Don’t write eloquently
Don’t talk grandiloquently
Don’t keep it all together.

Just be.
You can just be.
We can just be.