The first time you held me I was afraid of melting into you

Hugging you was a different type of warmth that I had never felt

The warmth was like a whisper promising it would never leave me

It was the type of warmth that entered through my fingertips before traveling up my arms, into my stomach

You held me like I was something new and unhinged

like you didn't mind my scars looking at you the way I looked at them

like all the stars in the universe had collided just so that you could hold me

You held me like I would never fade away from you

So I allowed myself to melt into you

To feel warmth, even if just for a second