when i am with you, i feel myself

or that’s what i used to think back

when i was younger and less capable

of seeing all the ways that it’s you, that

when i am with you, i feel overtaken, not

by love, not by myself, but by you

when i am alone, i feel like you do

when i am no longer with you, i still

feel invaded by your lingering presence

when i am with you, i want to stop

not when; while. while i am with you