Where would I be without you?

Not dead

Not depressed

Nothing so bereft

Of feeling

Of meaning

Of unsatisfying leanings

But weaker

Meeker

Without passion or desire

Without direction

Nor protection

And the means to fight the fires

Of absurdity

And modernity

But to seek the reasoning

Search for joy

Raise a boy

And a girl who must begin

To find their own hearts

Strike their own paths

Into worlds we cannot know

To find answers

To take chances

With the strength that you bestowed

Where would I be

If only me?

Somewhere worse than you could know