This too shall pass,
I know
I just wish it would pass like a train going by
Instead of a a kidney stone

I want you—the real you, all of you.
Not just the good parts I once romanticized,
the picture-perfect snapshots I built in my head.

I want you when you’re too sick to leave the bed,
when I’m moving quietly through the kitchen,
finishing those dishes you hate doing,
stirring dinner while the house breathes around us.

I want you when you drag me to your family’s Thanksgiving,
when their polite smiles are nothing but a lie
and I pretend not to notice.

I want you when your world turns dark and empty,
when thoughts close over you like deep water,
when nothing seems to touch you at all.

So please,
bother me.

You'll never know
That you taught me
Why people say they are "falling for someone"
When they talk about attraction

All it took was a smile
So Genuine
So Honest
So Peaceful

To feel unexpected excitement
The happy drop of my stomach
Like I'm on a rollercoaster
Or jumping off a cliff

And I knew
That I'm falling
For You

I want to scream it from the rooftops
Announce it to the world
Just how much I love you
Just how much you sweeten up my day

I want to let out the feeling in my chest
That's way too big for my body
The pure happiness when I see you
The ecstasy when I talk to you

Yet all I do is sit here
In silence
Typing

Does he know
How much he risks?

When he doesn't hear you out
And you find yourself alone?
When he throws you out the house
And you walk dangerous streets at night?

Does he even know
How lucky he is?

When he slams the door
And shuts down out of anger?
When he looks the other way
While his family berates you?

If only you knew
Your glow
Your warmth
Your worth

You'd know
I'd give anything
To take his place

Lips soft as a feather, I give her a kiss
No sugar needed, life is sweet as it is
At night she's asleep with her head on my chest
With her by my side I can finally rest

I come home from work to a dinner for two,
As i hear her soft voice whisper "I love you"
Holding her hand on long walks in the spring
On weekends we're lazy, would not change a thing

And the only argument we ever face
Is about the color we will paint our new place
She tells me that she might want kids someday too
I tell her that's fine - no challenge's too big with you

It's everything Ive dreamed of
What a shame to see
That he's living my best life
Instead of me