i dreamt of you.

i didn't want to,
didn't want you to haunt my days,
didn't want you to take my dreams,
didn't want to think of all the ways,
didn't want to rip away at the seams,
didn't want to waste my tears,
didn't want to leave scars,
didn't want you to be the cause of my fears,
but i did.

i dreamt of you.

i believe that when we're born,
when our souls are created by the universe,
we have beautiful, elegant wings,
and we're all beautiful and elegant things.

as we slowly fall to the earth,
little pieces of them are stripped away,
feather by feather until their gone
and what we start with is only what we have on.

every year we grow older
a piece of what we once had
begins to be replaced.
those little pieces of us are no longer erased.

don't get all your pieces,
everything is happening too fast.
don't put your wings back on,
none of us are ready for you to be gone.

falling in love with you
is like cliff jumping into the ocean.
falling into the depths within;
sinking so deep, forgetting i could swim.  

falling in love with you
is like sitting by a campfire.
holding me in your arms
as the warm flames reached higher.

falling in love with you
is like sitting and counting the stars.
each one having more meaning than the last;
connecting a map taking us all the way to Mars.

falling in love with you
is like blasting music and driving fast.
singing out of key and loosing our voices;
both of us wanting these moments to last.

falling in love with you is memorable.
and these memories are mine to keep forever.