"Savior fantasies" by Ewen Glass

Savior fantasies

are considered bad. 

It's not your place 

to save anyone.

But all I want is 

someone to want 

to save me.

It shouldn't matter 

that they can't.

Ewen Glass (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and lots of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Maudlin House, HAD, Poetry Scotland and Ex-Puritan. His debut chapbook ‘The Art of Washing What You Can't Touch’ is published by Alien Buddha Press.