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When I was little
I looked at you like you'd hung the moon
I clung to your words like life line
You were my world
Your stories were my maps
But as I get older
And now that your gone
I realize I have to branch out
I have draw my own maps
Build my own world
Your stories will always be there
Will always hold a special place in my heart
But they can no longer be my world
They are not maps of how my life will be
They are good memories and fond feeling
They are guilds on how to be
Not what to do
As much as I wish things were simple
And I could just do what you did
And turn out as happy as you were
I can't
We are not the same person
We can't live the same lives
So your stories will always be with me
Will always warm my heart
I grew up on your stories
But its time to live my own
May 2016 · 684
My ideal doesn't want me
What do I do now?
How do I move on?
My ideal doesn't want me
If it was a physical ideal
I'd be fine
Looks are just looks
No reason to dwell too long on those
My ideal though
My dream person
The person I always hoped for
Doesn't want me
I never thought of that
Not that I'm a great catch
And that the thought of rejection never occurred
It's just that I never thought
Not once
That my ideal would reject me
Would love some one else
Or pursue others
And tell me about it
My ideal tells me about their ideals
And I'm not them
If that wasn't enough
No, its never enough
My ideal keeps pushing
Keeps wanting to be closer
Wants to know more about me
About the person who never opens up
About the person who it hurts to do so
They want to know everything
And I want to tell them
Oh god how I do
But I can't
I always imagined the personI would open up to
The person I could give myself to
The person who would accept the good
The bad
The broken
Just me
I imagined
Oh I imagined
In my darkest days
This person who would be My Person
I imagined we would just fit
We would click for some reason
I imagined they would hold me close when I was feeling sad
Answer whenever I called in case something happened
Bicker with me just for fun
Tell me what was wrong so that I could make it better
Would make me laugh just because they could
Cuddle with me because I went through something tough
Kiss my head just to show they cared
Hold my waist or hand as we walked because we just wanted to contact
Let me be there for them because they knew I always would be
Tell me what they need so I can try to be there like they've been for me
I always imagined this person would love me
And I would love them
I imagined this person would be My Person
And I would be theirs
Yes, we would have other people we were close to
We would have best friends
And friends who were like family
But we'd be the closest
We'd be each other's support
When I imagined My Person
They were the only one
I promised myself I would find this person
I promised we'd have our struggles but would always end up happy together
I guess it's silly to think like that
It's silly to think this ideal would exist
But it helped me through the bad days
Helped me not do something I would regret
Or have others regret for me
When the dark days broke to lighter ones
I let my ideal go
Not that I didn't ponder about them
I just didn't dwell as I did
I didn't look for them as I would in the past
When I stopped looking
I found them
Or rather we happened upon each other
When I met my ideal
I didn't know at first
How could I?
I mean we clicked like I'd always dreamed
But that doesn't mean anything, right?
Until it does
Until it did
When I realized my ideal
When I found who I thought was My Person
I was over the moon!
I was surprised they existed
Surprised that I found them
My ideal person was real
I had a chance to be with My Person
But the stars were not aligned
Luck was not on my side
Fate had not favored me
I know this because though they are all I ever wanted
All I ever needed
They don't want me
They love me
They said they do
But I'm not their ideal
Their Person
And while I understand
It's still hard
Hard to be so close yet do so far
To be together yet a part
To have them take so much pain away but to give much more without knowing
I always imagined my ideal and I would be together for a long time if not forever
I just never imagined that it'd be as friends
Or that it would hurt this much
I imagined they would take the pain away
Not give a new kind
The worst part of it
The absolute worst
Is that it's not their fault
There's nothing they can do to make it better
No matter what we do
We can't separate because we can't abandon each other
And we can't be more if one of us doesn't feel that way
We're stuck
More actually
I'm stuck
I'm stuck with my ideal that will never become My Person
With a best friend I can't get over
With pain I can't stop
With a situation I can't rationalize my way out of
In all my days of imagining
Of dreaming
This ideal
My Person
I never once
Not in my darkest nightmares
Thought I would find them
Only to have them not want me
Never did I think I'd find myself having to get over this
Having to deal
To think
To know
My ideal doesn't want me
I'm sorry it's long. It got away from me. The words kept flowing so who waa I to stop writing.
I love him!
There!
I said it!
He doesn't know
Or at least I don't think he knows
He might know
Oh I hope he doesn't know
I don't want him to know
Because he can't
It's a secret
I love him
But I don't think he loves me
I mean how could he love me
He doesn't love me
He wouldn't, right?
You won't tell anyone, right?
Especially not him, right?
I love him
It feels so good to say it
I love him
I love him!
I love him!!
I love the way it feels to tell someone
I tell almost anyone
No him of course
He's my friend
He can't know
Shouldn't know
Couldn't know
Won't know
Not until I tell him
Which I might
ONE day
Just...not TOday
I mean he might not love me
Then what'll I do?
He might want to stay friends
That would be awkward
Oh very awkward indeed
I love him
I love him!
You won't tell him, right?
You can't tell him
Oh please don't
I'd be crushed
Just crushed
If you told him
Then he'd know
He can't know
Not now
It's too frightening to even think
That'd he know
I couldn't bare it if you told him
Oh I'd die
Just die I tell you!
I can trust you, right?
You can keep a secret, can't cha?
I am complete
I am whole
I don't need another "half"
I just need the other circle to my venn diagram
The other complete person to overlap with
We are complete
We are whole
We are not two "halves" looking to be whole
We are two complete circles
With things in common
Things that overlap
I don't think I could handle being a half
If I were half and you made me whole
What would happen if you left?
What if it were the other way around?
When you are a half made whole
Things would hurt so much more
Not only if you left
But while I'm looking
While I'd be looking
I'd be incomplete
Half of me wouldn't be there
So no
I'm not looking for my other "half"
I'm looking for my other circle
The other part of my vann diagram
Apr 2016 · 503
Another sleepless night
As I lay here
In my bed
Thoughts of you dance
Within my head
I try to sleep
But toss and turn
Thinking thoughts
That cause concern
Not having you here
Is no fun
I sit up cursing
What I've done
I said things
One should not say
All in hopes
Of getting my way
It didn't work
Not at all
Now you won't answer me
Even one single call
Oh how I wish
I could make things right
You know how I hate it
When we fight
I'm sorry
It's true
But I can't take back
What I did to you
What you sow
Is what you reap
I guess that's why
I'm devoid of sleep
Night after night
I will not rest
Until this guilt
Is off my chest
Apr 2016 · 209
Family
Family
Complicated
Confusing
Difficult
Family
Loving
Strong
Const­ant
Family
Frustrating
Forgiving
Forever
Family
Apr 2016 · 227
The Best Friend in Love
I am the best friend
And I am in love
I am loved back
But not in that way
Not in the way I crave
Not in the way I need
But I am the best friend
So I must do as the best friend does
Make you laugh
Be by your side
Comfort you when sad
Advise you in love
Deal with my pain
Hide my tears
Don't make things worse
Pretend it's okay
It's hard
So hard
Making jokes about my feelings
Like they're not there
Letting you throw my words back at me
Like I can stand to hear them again
Giving hugs and being around
Like I don't want more
Hearing you say no one loves you
Like you haven't heard me say that I do
Letting you so close
Like it doesn't hurt
Listening to your plights of love
Like my heart isn't breaking
Being your best friend
Like I'm not dying inside
I wish
Oh how I wish
I could go back
Back to when I didn't love you
Back to when things were easy
When I didn't want for more
I didn't crave you as I do now
Crave your affection
Your passion
Your love
I wish I could go back
Stop it before it began
I wish for things that are not possible
Things that could never happen
For ever l even if I were to go back
I couldn't change my falling for you
It was inevitable
How could it not be?
You are all things I long for
All things it seems I can't have
For I am the best friend
And that's all I'll ever be
The best friend in love

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