Stella Silvae

We are the ways that you survived, 
in spite of some of us 
being the ways that you almost didn’t.  

Or couldn’t.  

And we have been here, all this time, 
despite the loneliness.  
Waiting for you to finally know it.  

And yourself.  

To understand that we would not 
have made it either, 
if not for the ways you cared for us.  

And yourself. 

The ways you tried to understand.  

And that’s all survival needs, 
when it comes down to it. 
To know us.  

And yourself.  

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