[preamble] & poem 56 [live for you]
Added 2024-09-30 22:35:03 +0000 UTCrecorded with the Blue Yeti mic - thank you, Throne Team
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live for you
Would I die for you, my love? [of course]
But daily worship takes a different form
I’d rather bring you coffee in the morning
Or run your errands for you in the storm
I will fold your laundry [since you hate to]
I’ll tell you that you’re justified to cry
I will cook for you when you’re too tired
I’ll say you're beautiful and never lie
I’ll cherish nights with just you and the TV
I’ll tell you that I love you just because
My gratitude for us will never waver
Growing familiar will not dull my love
So would I die for you? [of course, I would dear]
But I prefer to live for you instead
It’s harder in the long run, but worth trying
For more time on earth to cherish what we have
Comments
Shared this beauty with my mom tonight, while we were driving home together … you have a new fan ❤️🥰
xo.LeeleeTee
2025-03-07 04:05:24 +0000 UTC"I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live." - QOTSA
Marlow Graves
2024-10-02 19:33:30 +0000 UTCNot me listening to this repeatedly wanting to drown myself in carbs 😭
Christian B
2024-10-02 00:11:35 +0000 UTCHey lovely, it really moves me how much what I wrote resonates with you. It's been a little different here. It's more life that starved us both and we lost sight of each other. But I found myself again and then we found each other before it was too late. 😘
Katakora
2024-10-01 20:47:38 +0000 UTCMy husband is all acts of service, but he does all of this (and so so much more for me) and this poem has me teary!?!? Like I might legitimately cry? Thanks doc 😭
KaM
2024-10-01 17:09:02 +0000 UTCThat was beautiful 🥹
Cami
2024-10-01 14:12:14 +0000 UTCdoc. This was so beautiful. There you go again identifying that vestigial Dude and ignoring him for the man who understands real effort counts way more than macho posturing about some future thing that might not ever happen. Just be careful to ask once in a while if what you are offering is still what she wants (see my reply to Katakora below) 💜💜💜
Mare
2024-10-01 11:43:40 +0000 UTCKat Kat Kat Not me crying on the subway and I'm not even going to try to turn this into a poem I had what doc is offering and people around me would say they wished their person was like him, but that was his personality. He served me and caught me before I even knew I was falling. And I know he thought that was love but the part that is love is what you write about. Years into it. Roaming in an oxygen deprived space where we didnt talk about the fact we couldn't breathe. When I realized I was numb because I never had to think feel ask - everything done for me means I don't get to be creative in the kitchen or have girl dinner or do something besides Netflix and chill. When the sight of our cute stockinged feet on the coffee table becomes a symbol of how we never go anywhere. So I stop trying to reach out for you and you retract because you are afraid I don't love you and the next thing you know we are face down in the snow and everyone around you bursts into tears when you tell them you're done because we seemed so good together the way he always 'took care' of me. But Kat, you said it better💜
Mare
2024-10-01 11:34:40 +0000 UTCOh doc, so beautiful
M
2024-10-01 11:12:45 +0000 UTCThis was lovely! There is something so beautiful about the small moments of sharing life with someone that on their own may be something that is easy to overlook but I believe in their totality, they can be the grandest expression of love.
MissChriss
2024-10-01 04:52:21 +0000 UTCThank you for this. All the feels
Erin
2024-10-01 04:48:20 +0000 UTC
