To You by Sambidha Bhandari

I love you, how much you ask,

Enough to get earlier than you just to nag you and poke you, 

Enough to make sure the rice is cooked hours before we leave, 

Enough to hear you snore as I try to go back to sleep, 

I love you, as much as you hate to clean, 

I make sure you do because of how perfectly you do, 

I love you, how much you ask 

Enough to heat every meal got you, 

Enough to eat migraine for a long walking date, 

Enough to make a cheat day for sugar consumption, 

Enough to make sure we eat in your favorite spot over my cravings. 

Enough to pull you closer so that you do not fall from the bed, 

I love you, 

As much as the moon loves the sun, 

As much as Romeo loved Juliet, 

As much as my obsessive craving for Momo’s

I love you, how much you ask,

Enough to fold our clothes and hold them hoping we grow old together, 

Enough to cook 25 days in 30 days of a month,

Enough to slip out of bed quietly so that you do not get up, 

Enough to make sure you are covered with a blanket as I move out, 

Enough to do your assignments over mine, 

I love you, 

As much as the depth of the blue sea, 

As much as to keep and take hundreds of your photos for me to stalk later, 

As much as to cut your beard and make you more handsome every day, 

As much as Mahadev loves Devi Parvati, 

As much as Laila loves Majnu, 

I love you, how much you ask,

Enough to wait for you to come home, 

Enough to warm your hands in the cold winter wind, 

Enough to watch you play games and win the MVP medals, 

Enough to sleep on your chest for closure, 

Enough to let you sleep on me for warmth of stability, 

I love you, 

As much as you love me, or more

As much as you adore me, 

As much as your obsession with me.

I love you, how much you ask,

Enough to match your weirdness with additional weirdness, 

Enough to let you get your way with puppy eyes, 

Enough to use your blanker over my fluffier,

I love you,

As much as my weirdness matches your sarcasm, 

As much as my 88 personalities still love you, 

As much as your 5 personalities melt me, 

A mush as my target blankie that I cannot sleep without,

As much as my routine of touching you as two times with my blankie. 

I love you, how much you ask,

Enough to make the bed in the morning, 

Enough to add broccoli to Thai-fried rice that I hate, and you love, 

Enough to make sure your phone has charge, 

Enough to put an alarm for you to slowly get up, 

Enough to hear your snoozing alarms from 8 am to get up at 2 pm, 

Enough to watch K-drama and anime as you sleep, 

Enough to put air pods so the sound of my drama doesn’t agitate you, 

I love you,

As much as I love to talk but I wish to hear you speak more, 

As much as I love to write and each piece to be about you, 

As much as I hate criticism, I want you to read and critique, 

I love you, how much you ask,

Enough to scold you, be mad at you, hate you, and love you at the same time. 

I love you. 

To you, 

For you, 

With you, 

Always love.