i don’t need you. no primordial instinct dictates i love you

no laws of physics, oaths of man, or promises from god require i need you.

needing somebody only exists as a tempting romanticism.

it would be more accurate to say:

i want you.

i desire you.

i chose you,

above all other options.

not because a need that predicates my survival. but because of a want greater than a foundation for life. a choice reasoned through desire rather than maxim. this is not a subtle difference. it is not just semantic.

to say that i choose you more than the body flows blood,

does not mean i need you.