Falling in love 
the way 
movies say 
has never come easily to me. 
I do not love people. 
I doubt I ever will. 
But I love the way my brother laughs 
(usually at me) 
and the sandwiches my mother packs for lunch 
(she's never stopped) 
and how my father has never given up 
(never do anything less than your best). 
I love mountains and red pandas and blueberries, 
bookshops and lilies and laughter and the moon, 
black holes, 
pine trees, 
stardust, 
bioluminescence, 
fairytales, 
the sea at midnight 
the stars within 
and the way the wind feels when the car window rolls down. 
I love how life completes itself 
(your heart is beating – can you feel it?) 
(you were meant to be alive.) 
Let others love others. 
I am falling for everything else.