I think that maybe I loved you,
in the darkness,
and in the lowlights.
And I think that maybe I held you
in my heart
or in my hands.
I think that maybe I misunderstood
all the little things,
or maybe the big things,
the things of which the size, I couldn’t comprehend.
I misunderstood everything.
Every moment that was spent thinking that I understood the world,
thinking that I understood us.
Who we were,
and where we were going.
Everything was supposed to be black and white.
I expected it
to be black and white.
I tried to avoid all the grey areas where the lines were undefined,
sought to avoid the questions and confusions.
But I couldn’t.
Slowly,
the universe seeped through the eyelids I had attempted to keep forced shut.
Strands of color.
Threads which shot across the darkness,
of my lonely ceiling,
weaving galaxies,
and forming Gods.
I watched all the stories being written
in the form of harlequin dreams.
Surrendered to the kaleidoscopic visions,
of everything I’d originally witnessed in passionless monotint.
Everything became chaotic,
complex,
as I laid there in what was now
nothing more than the remnants of a former perspective.
I think that maybe that was the moment it all made sense.
All the things that didn’t make sense,
all the things that were never meant to make sense.
I became suddenly comfortable with this Pollock-like perception,
where everything was smeared and splattered together
as an illustration of pure and continuous creation,
providing a canvas for both reason and insanity.
I think that maybe it was then that I loved you
for everything that you weren’t,
and everything that you would never be.
I loved you for all the expectations that weren’t there.
For all the things you didn’t ask about,
and all the secrets I didn’t feel the need to tell you.
It was all clear,
when the lines blurred and the colors mixed.
I think that maybe I loved you
simply because I loved you
Aug 23, 2016
Aug 23, 2016 at 11:49 PM UTC
I think that maybe I loved you,
in the darkness,
and in the lowlights.
And I think that maybe I held you
in my heart
or in my hands.
I think that maybe I misunderstood
all the little things,
or maybe the big things,
the things of which the size, I couldn’t comprehend.
I misunderstood everything.
Every moment that was spent thinking that I understood the world,
thinking that I understood us.
Who we were,
and where we were going.
Everything was supposed to be black and white.
I expected it
to be black and white.
I tried to avoid all the grey areas where the lines were undefined,
sought to avoid the questions and confusions.
But I couldn’t.
Slowly,
the universe seeped through the eyelids I had attempted to keep forced shut.
Strands of color.
Threads which shot across the darkness,
of my lonely ceiling,
weaving galaxies,
and forming Gods.
I watched all the stories being written
in the form of harlequin dreams.
Surrendered to the kaleidoscopic visions,
of everything I’d originally witnessed in passionless monotint.
Everything became chaotic,
complex,
as I laid there in what was now
nothing more than the remnants of a former perspective.
I think that maybe that was the moment it all made sense.
All the things that didn’t make sense,
all the things that were never meant to make sense.
I became suddenly comfortable with this Pollock-like perception,
where everything was smeared and splattered together
as an illustration of pure and continuous creation,
providing a canvas for both reason and insanity.
I think that maybe it was then that I loved you
for everything that you weren’t,
and everything that you would never be.
I loved you for all the expectations that weren’t there.
For all the things you didn’t ask about,
and all the secrets I didn’t feel the need to tell you.
It was all clear,
when the lines blurred and the colors mixed.
I think that maybe I loved you
simply because I loved you
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