An Aromantic Love Letter

You fear that your jade-green heart is too small

or nonexistent.

You fear that you are robotic.

You fear that everyone else's love

is a torrential rainfall

or a raging river

and yours is just a trickling stream

and that they will all leave you

because you cannot quench their thirst.

You fear that you are not enough

because you aren't an all-consuming

all-or-nothing

forest fire.

I know this because

I fear, too.

My dearest gem,

you are enough.

I see your love,

regardless of its form

or its intensity.

I see your dazzling fire, I feel your warmth, radiating.

You are not selfish or broken for leaving others thirsty,

for not thirsting yourself.

You never were and never will be less-than.

You are whole,

and human,

and beautiful,

and worthy of all things good,

and

so

very

enough.