I saved you from that guy 

from talking suicide 

I don’t think he was worth 

the Netflix renewal

 

you saved me from myself 

tinder girls as well 

who kept me out well past my 

middle school curfew

 

we spent our savings on each other 

although we weren’t lovers

comrades in a life

without a fast forward

 

we blew it on vacations

wine and overnight shipments 

of chocolate books

and box set collections

 

And we’re doing it over again

 

I’ll save you from this boredom 

that has no other name 

seeing millions making 

the same mistakes over and over again

 

you’ll save me from a fatalism 

biblical in depth

that suggests there’s been no progress 

thousands of tears since

 

we spent all our savings 

in a single moment 

as soon as we realized

we could never own it

 

we spent all our savings 

on one last bar of chocolate

 then I licked your fingers 

as we hiked up that hill