This was written based on a F(r)iction prompt for my adoptive son, Riku, during a time when he was starting to believe he could be loved.

It made him cry, and he asked me, “How do you see this?”

I told him, “Because you showed me.”

This is a letter to him, but it’s also for anyone who’s ever felt like too much and not enough at the same time. You are seen. You are loved.