(no subject)
You're nothing like I thought you'd be.
I was so sure, so certain that I knew,
Exactly who could do it, who would be the one,
To get to me eventually.
But maybe it's a little strange,
Or maybe it's the most practical thing
I've heard all my life,
That the one thing I had dreaded most,
Came from the one person I'd have least expected.
Yet there's something I don't understand.
That when I'm near you,
Why is it that life itself seems to disappear?
With just a glance, I can feel your arms around me.
And the very second our eyes meet,
I can feel my heart grow faint.
And that's a feeling I had yet to know before you.
Before you, I was just the same.
Maybe happiness is something.
That once you have, you can't go back.
You can't discard it and forget;
It burns a whole in your heart that must always be filled.
Without love, you'll know it's empty.
With you, I know I'm nothing if I can't at least
Hear your laugh or see that smile inside my mind.
When I'm alone.
There's not much left without a memory.
But memories can only do so much.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Believe me I can feel it, I can feel it.
Not so much a want, but a need.
I can't imagine what I would be without you.
Maybe I'd be just as I used to,
Maybe not a thing would have changed.
Lacking expectations and hope,
Just being there with someone for the ride.
For the sake of making someone happy.
That was something, to never love.
In some ways I was safer
Before I reserved myself.
I thought I knew what love was,
But now I see what it wasn't.
A heart is much more fragile, but more beautiful,
To be given in vulnerability,
Than to break at your own hands.
Love is worth the battle.
The battle is worth the heartache.
The heartache is worth dying for,
If it first came from love.
The second you know you've fallen,
You see your fate pressed against the glass.
You could turn around, but you won't.
Love is that chance,
That last bet,
You're all in, and you know what the outcome may be,
What it would most likely be.
But like a child on a whim,
You'll gladly take the risk.
After all, a fairy tale ending
Has got to start somewhere.