I love my friends and our ADHD

Content warning: mention of drinking/alcohol

What if love is not

The progression that we experience

The way we connect or

what we do together

But the moments in which you and I

Laugh at our own jokes

See ourselves in each other’s expressions

Feel the urge again to cook

Feel the warmth of our own hands

As we sloppily open this bottle of wine

And we share between us

The memories of our childhoods and

drunken soliloquies that brush through our wheezing sweet thunderous giggles

What if love is

The tired glances

That we pass to one another

To signal

That we are hurt

but not hurting

While we wait

Like impatient fishes at the top of a pond

to feel sunlight again

It doesn’t have to make sense

And it doesn’t have to last

But doesn’t mean it won’t change us

It is this that is

The greatest love

Where you can exist

Wholly as yourself

Even momentarily Uninterrupted

And that is why

When you talk

In endless circles

So excited to get that last word out

So confused as to what that word is

I don’t want to be anywhere else