Philia is the Best Kind of Love

i want to hug and squeeze you with more enthusiasm than i use to get the last globs of toothpaste out of a stubborn tube

i want to wrap you up in a massive ball of yarn; impossibly rich, stunningly colorful

i want to make you warm soup and raspberry pillow cookies because they’re cozy and reassuring

i want to watch the joy spread across your face upon receiving them, like a toddler who just experienced licking the inside of an emptied bowl of brownie mix for the first time

i want to write you notes and poems like a totally platonic cyrano de bergerac 

i want to make annotations in your favorite books and memes about your favorite shows

i want to laugh and cry with you because those experiences bring people together 

and i don’t want to be apart

i will miss you, dear friend, with tears in my eyes and tears in my heart