You called me your female friend

Does that mean

We're still friends?

After all this time?

We're still friends?

You still have the pictures of us with our friends

Hanging in your room, from grade school

Does that mean

We're still friends?

After all this time?

We're still friends?

We had this moment of banter

It was short

But it was something I needed

Something I needed

In order to show myself

That you don't hate me

In order to show myself

That those things I have told myself

Aren't true

So maybe, just maybe,

The other things I have told myself

Aren't true either

Maybe

You aren't meant to disrupt my learning

To love myself

But maybe,

You are meant to help me learn

To love myself