I wish...
I wish that I was better with words.
I wish that I was more confident.
The kind of confident that would let me walk up to your door and tell you everything. Tell you everything that goes on inside my head as far as you're concerned.
But I'm not.
So I can't.
But I want to.
I want so badly to tell you that maybe, just maybe, you, are the one.
Not in a Matrix gonna save the world from the machines kind of a way but in the way that real people think of the one. The one that I've been looking for, the one I gave up looking for, the one that I didn't think even existed.
At least not for me.
I want to tell you that I think you may be the one and I want you tell me that you've been wanting to say the same thing.
But you couldn't.
Because you weren't good enough with words.
Because you didn't have the confidence.
Wouldn't that be ironic.
But I'm also scared.
I'm scared that I'll see you and tell you that I think you might be the one and hear you say thats all very nice and you might be my one, but I'm not yours.
And you'd be sorry.
You'd be sorry and you'd mean it because you are kind and you are beautiful. But it wouldn't help.
So what do I do?
Do I risk it? Do I tell you and cross everything and hope and pray that maybe, just maybe, I might be your one too?
Or do I say nothing.
Do I say nothing and just continue to lie here every night the way I have been since I worked out what it was about you that caused you to be in every thought that I have and every dream?
There is safety in saying nothing.
If I don't say anything then you can't say anything bad. You can't say no. You can't say that maybe you don't believe in the one. You can't say that you had your one once and it didn't work out so how can you possibly have another.
I know its crazy, but thats the way you drive me.
And its crazy that you drive me crazy. It's crazy that you've gotten under my skin the way you have. Its crazy that you've gotten under my skin so completely, you're like a tattoo. Like a tattoo in a private place, a hidden place. Like a living breathing tattoo that I carry round with me all the time and I'm the only one that knows that you're there. And I'm glad you're there. I like you there.
So I keep wishing.
Only now I wish that maybe you read poetry and you happen accross this somehow and read it and pick up the phone and say "Hey... stop wishing so much, just kiss me."
I wish.
Another attempt at trying not to rhyme and yet create something that could pass for poetry.
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