Kee Hinckley

I went to a writer's workshop today and the prompt was "write a love letter written to a non-romantic friend". So I wrote a poem Love Letter to an Aromantic Friend

The truth was revealed
As truth is
In the things you didn't do
An unanswered touch
A glance that never met

And yet when we sit
Side by side
Reading our separate books
Playing separate games
I feel your soul with mine

And while you may not
It is true
Long for me as I for you
I can live with that
If you would live with me

And so I ask you
Via text
If you would join my comfort
Spending life with me
Doing separate things

#Poetry #SmallPoems #FlashFiction #Aromantic

Apr 10 at 2:14amWeb
Show threadcognitively accessible mathApr 10
@nazgul I absolutely love that you didn't make this a "it's not romantic but I love ou anyway."
Especially because.... oh, it resonates. It's real.
Show threadKee HinckleyApr 10
@geonz Thank you! I was hoping I had captured it.
Show threadChris JohnsonApr 10
@nazgul Beautiful.
Show threadmuddleApr 10

@nazgul One of my most recent notebook notes reads "the things you can only say to a duck." I guess that's my non-romantic friend. They never seem to argue with me. Never answer back at all, in fact... not even a quack. As if it would ever echo back at all... this non-romantic friend of mine, who always listens, hears my coded talk, is Sphinx-like in its reply. I love it all the more, but in a most Platonic way. It could be different, but I know they're just a duck. And they, for their part maintain an ever-clenching Sphinxter way.

(ok, maybe needs some work; at least the initial quote was legit... and sorry if it got a bit non-Platonic in the end (the duck and I are still friends))

#Riffs

Show threadKee HinckleyApr 10
@muddle ❤️🤣
Show threadCat WestApr 10
@nazgul beautiful and brilliant and with a life of its own.
Show threadKee HinckleyApr 10
@Catawu Thank you!