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Kevin Jan 2014
spring makes colorful promises
fall blows them away
this is nature's way of telling us
"no matter how beautiful,
no matter how promising,
no matter how radiant,
nothing is here to stay"
Kevin Jan 2014
Dear first love,

At the beginning of our relationship, I made a promise to you and to myself. I promised that I would never drop you, and I promised that I would never consider you just another girl in my parade. In the end, you were so much more than that. You were everything to me. I gave you everything my thin spirit could afford to lose. I gave you my heart. After some time, you realized that you did notwant it, so you left. Life without you is killing me from the inside out. I have broken my own heart so many times by filling my head with made up happy endings. I kept telling myself that you would come back; that you could impossibly be gone for good if you really loved me as much as you said you did.

So often, I have had to scrape my own heart off of the floor after throwing it at you, thinking you would catch it and embrace it like you used to. But it has become pretty obvious. The love you once felt for me is gone. Lastly, I told you that I would do anything if it meant seeing you happy, even if it cost me every last one of my smiles. So I am going to accept that you are happy, and that it’s not with me. I am going to accept that from now on I will be watching from the sideline, as you fall in and out of love with others. And I am going to accept that I might never be in the position to hold your hand and call you mine ever again.
Kevin Jan 2014
at times, i find myself so naïve for still loving you;
for still wanting to love you.
but then i remember that there are not a lot of
guys who have the determination to hold on to
someone after so much sorrow and suffering.
i am proud to be one of the few that do.
Kevin Jan 2014
i’ve always told you how perfect i think you are;
how beautiful, and how amazing in every single way.
i remember how i would fight you to get you to see
all of these wonderful sides of yourself.
and yet, you never wanted to accept the compliments.
this always disappointed me, because i simply could not understand
how a girl that stunning could look in the mirror
and not marvel at her own appearance.
but simultaneously, i saw this as a challenge;
i figured that i had to pour my love into you even more,
until you realized that you are beautiful
and worth someone’s time, someone’s life. my life.
i remember how you used to think i would lie to you
and say that you looked pretty, just to make you happy.
you could not have been any more wrong. i was by your side for a long time.
i’ve seen you gain and lose weight, cut and grow out your hair,
laugh and cry. and i loved every moment of it;
i loved how your face filled up, then slimmed down.
i loved how cute you looked with shorter hair and how ****
when you grew it out again.
i swear to god, you were beautiful even
when you had tears rolling down your face.

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