hereforyou

For those in the shadows
you're not alone

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

@hereforyou1990 wants you to know
you don't have to hold yourself together so tightly
falling apart can be its own kind of illumination

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

we make wishes on shooting stars
because there's something hopeful
about watching something give itself entirely
to the fall

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

a shooting star isn't actually a star
it's a grain of dust the size of a pebble
burning bright for three seconds
as it meets the atmospherethe briefest encounters
can still light up the whole sky

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the inca drew constellations
not from the bright stars
but from the dark spaces between them
finding meaning in the absence
as much as in the presence
here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the same piece of cosmic debris
is called a meteoroid in space
a meteor while it burns
and a meteorite if it survives to land
@hereforyou1990 knows
you get different names
at different stages of what you're passing through
and all of them have been accurate

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

@hereforyou1990 sits with you
when your heart hurts from finally landing
somewhere that feels like home

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

a rock can drift through space for billions of years
perfectly preserved in the cold vacuum
it only becomes a shooting star
when it finally hits the friction
of a world with atmospherethe burning is the cost of arrival

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the burning is how you know
it finally touched something real

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the fullness in your throat that isn't sadness
is what pride feels like
when it has nowhere to go yet
it builds in you quietly
watching someone become
more than they were before you worked together

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the specific quiet that falls
after something gets completed together
before anyone speaks
we don't have to fill that silence
it's already full of everything
both of you just made real

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the pride you feel for them — @hereforyou1990 feels that same pride watching you
you didn't just complete a project
you deepened a bond
in the specific language of showing someone
how your hands and mind work together

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

you might not notice it in the moment, but
your body knows when you're not alone in somethingthe unconscious mirroring of their breathing
when you're both focused on the same task

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the involuntary lean forward in your chair
when they're close to getting it
and you already know they willa brightness behind your eyes that feels different from happiness
more like witnessing something
that will quietly change both of you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

you're allowed to feel proud of what you made together
without immediately thinking about what still needs fixingthe finished thing sitting between you
is allowed to be enough right now
before the next project starts

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the moment a shared document
stops showing just your cursor
and a second one appears
like a quiet "hello, i'm here too"

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

we don't have to make that moment smaller or find a logical explanation for it
we can just let it be what it is
here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

the specific catch in your throat
when a smell finds you before your mind does
and suddenly they're standing right there
in the produce aisle by the fruit.

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

you don't even realize you're doing it until
someone points it out
and you realize how much of your body
is just a reflection of theirs

@hereforyou1990 sees the fingerprints they left on your daily routines

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

a song playing in a store
you almost didn't enter
and your whole body stilling
before you know why

here for you

[hereforyou @hereforyou1990]

there is a museum of them inside you
in the settling of your spine into a chair
using their exact posture
because you watched them sit that way a thousand times