#3:28 PM PST / 20231222

[elainelorriemartin]

if you don’t fall in love with the contagious laugh

or a smile hidden upon my face

if it’s not the way my feet always find their way to a toasty space

how about how your coziest pillow is my ember embrace?

then i’m surely not the one for you,

just a “great girl” standing in their place

so to make this about me for once

i wish i took less kindly to someone allowing their actions to validate the thought i could be replaced

as quickly i may rescind access to my truth..

though likely accompanied by a fumbling, saddened sort of grace

—e.l. martin