me

i want to hold someone. i want to hold someone dear. i want to hold someone so dear to me that even after years of being together and getting familiar along the way, every touch—every time we hold hands, every time we hug, every time we kiss, every time we make love—sparks an electrifying feeling into my heart and soul.

I don’t think I’ve ever known how to love in halves. When I love, it consumes me. It settles into my bones, reshapes my days, turns absence into something I can physically feel .

The word Plato used is atopia , a concept describing the ineffability of things or emotions that are seldom experienced, that are outstanding, and that are original in the strict sense.

After Adonis’s death, the boar is said to have protested that it had not meant to injure the beautiful youth with its erotikous odantas , or “eroticized teeth.”

The boar meant only to caress him.

Knowing that you can be deeply moved—intellectually and physically—but you can never fully grasp another in their entirety.

“The few moments of real presence you have ever felt in your life might mean that a god was inside someone near you, using them to see you. The few moments of real insight we’ve ever had about another might indicate that a god was inside us at that moment, using us to see them. When they brighten the characteristics of another person, it is like... See more