Favorite

When I miss my other,

When he is not near,

I feel a shudder

And my thoughts are unclear.

I long for him to be there

So I can hold him so tight

There is so much that we share

And he loves me just right.

I make terrible puns,

He teaches me physics,

He’s bright as the sun,

So smart it is almost mythic.

When we sleep side by side,

I breathe in the air he breathes out;

I know no greater high

Than having him about.

We’ll sit at our laptops,

Chatting about how and who,

But we don’t talk non- stop;

We are comfortable with silence, too.

He is my best friend and my lover,

He is my Favorite above any other,

I will never want for another,

It is he alone that I covet.