i'm here with this letter

i'm here with the letter that you almost wrote me,
almost describing to me how you felt;
how love could be sweet & heart-wrenchingly bitter
like these circumstances you almost were dealt.
you almost declared that you'd loved me forever
and you hoped i'd remember when i heard about
how you almost took ten times too much medication
cause you were too tired to wrestle with doubts.
i almost was destined for love and blind foxes,
but then i was transferred to cold cuts and tea.
you ran from the nightmares and lullabies corner
into the room's center square, where you found me.
you're just like me: people say that we're bad news.
if you value yourself, you'd run from here fast.
our bones were broken here between these church pews
looking for something which was made to last.