For Max (2013)

you’d never know this

but the best thing you ever did for me

was not when you spent 200 dollars on dinner for two

or when you showed up at my door at a moments notice

just to hold me

and protect me from myself

it was not when you let me crash at your place

because i was too scared to drive home

or when you killed the spider in the bathroom

or let me win a tickle fight once in a while

the best thing you have ever done for me

was when you told me

you didn’t care

you didnt care

about my weight

or my skin

or my hair

or my clothes

or my fears or obsessions or disorders or mannerisms or tendencies or habits

because you love me not despite these things

but because of them