benafsha

Your name means flower

And mine means rose

We are both thorny

We both push away

And we love too much

These are things that only you and I understand about each other

We are flowers

And perhaps this is the bond that takes us further

Than any law of society that could come in our way

We are not sisters

We are not of the same bloodline

Nor of the same country

Nor of the same language

But we can suck on fresh mango and talk the night away

And perhaps this is what makes us one

As if bloodlines ever had to do with anything as pure and simple as our relationship

Perhaps ours is better to remain bloodless

And nameless

You are all at once my best friend, my sister, and the person I will compare every man to

For there is no one else I would walk to the ends of the earth for

With the full trust that she would jump with me

And this is what one should expect from a lover, no?

Even God must be wondering

Why every relationship couldn’t turn out like ours

You are the answer to every prayer I didn’t know I performed

And I thank God for this every day

Here’s to all the relationships we don’t understand, and how unnecessary it is to define them

I love you, happy birthday

You deserve every good thing