I Want To Be Your Song
I want to be the chorus that carries you through the day.
I want to be the chorus that carries you through the day.
What if we believed, even for a second, in the power of the universe, in the importance of following our hearts?
You are wonderfully made. Your body, your brain, your being—constructed in a way that’s beautiful, that’s breathtaking, that’s uniquely you.
Too long I have thought love waits
at doorsteps, at bus stations, at answering machines
with no messages, phones that don’t ring.
I try to make things look beautiful rather than authentic and flawed because I don’t yet realize that I’m sitting a little too close. That my nose is pressed against the canvas, searching for imperfections, when really I could take a step back and see that my painting is beautiful. Just the way it is.
Call me crazy, but I truly believe there are people that want the same things as me—relationships that matter, intellectual conversations, dates and laughter, nights spent doing things together rather than just doing it.
I want to trace each part of you underneath my fingertips until I know, until I understand.
Sometimes we get so caught up in the things we’re supposed to do, in the places we’re supposed to be, even in the words we’re supposed to say that we forget the little things.
The freckles on his skin. Or the birthmarks, the scars, the little imperfections that he pays no attention to, that doesn’t think about. You notice these tiny things, memorize them.
We let ourselves be defined by the ways we’ve been treated wrongly and we put up walls in hopes to never be burned again. All understandable, at first. But eventually you have to chip away at that tough exterior.
Eventually you have to learn to let people back in.