Fill me up with laughter that hiccups, tears that heal, and midnight conversations that stretch like elastic until dawn. Fill me up with chores shared and food that arrives with no instructions. Fill me up with clumsy poems and perfect apologies.
Fill me up with sunlight and small mercy. Let the windows open and the day forgive me for everything I couldn’t do yesterday. Give me a plant that refuses to die under my watch, a balcony morning where the city inhales and I get to exhale.
Fill me up with the feeling of being wanted—not as a rescue mission but as chosen. Let touch be simple: a hand on the small of my back, a thumb on the inside of my wrist, a theatrical flourish of fingers through hair. Let belonging be quiet and constant.
Fill me up with good trouble—the kind that wakes you on a weekday and insists you call an old friend, or board a bus with no plan but a map and a dare. Let audacity be the petrol in my veins; I’ll take it to the coast or to the corner store. Surprise me with a sky I haven’t seen before.
If, by the end, there is anything left, fill me up with the courage to give it away. Let it pour out like surplus light, like a well that keeps surprising you with its depth. Erika—fill me up. I will be ready to spill over.
Erika—name like soft light across the kitchen table, like the word for coffee when morning does its small, stubborn work. Fill me up, she says, and the room leans in: a command and a prayer wrapped in one.
Fill me up with laughter that hiccups, tears that heal, and midnight conversations that stretch like elastic until dawn. Fill me up with chores shared and food that arrives with no instructions. Fill me up with clumsy poems and perfect apologies.
Fill me up with sunlight and small mercy. Let the windows open and the day forgive me for everything I couldn’t do yesterday. Give me a plant that refuses to die under my watch, a balcony morning where the city inhales and I get to exhale. erika fill me up
Fill me up with the feeling of being wanted—not as a rescue mission but as chosen. Let touch be simple: a hand on the small of my back, a thumb on the inside of my wrist, a theatrical flourish of fingers through hair. Let belonging be quiet and constant. Fill me up with laughter that hiccups, tears
Fill me up with good trouble—the kind that wakes you on a weekday and insists you call an old friend, or board a bus with no plan but a map and a dare. Let audacity be the petrol in my veins; I’ll take it to the coast or to the corner store. Surprise me with a sky I haven’t seen before. Fill me up with sunlight and small mercy
If, by the end, there is anything left, fill me up with the courage to give it away. Let it pour out like surplus light, like a well that keeps surprising you with its depth. Erika—fill me up. I will be ready to spill over.
Erika—name like soft light across the kitchen table, like the word for coffee when morning does its small, stubborn work. Fill me up, she says, and the room leans in: a command and a prayer wrapped in one.