Two hundred and forty pounds, and not an ounce of confidence.
I’ve got weight enough for two women, and a heart heavy enough for three,
but I’m still waiting for the one.
Not a single date to my name, with Senior Prom a week away.
What happened next, the blind man who walked into The *** of Gold
called miraculous.
It was five feet, four inches, one hundred and twenty pounds of she’s too
good for me. Miss Horizon High School: the past star of my silent affections.
I cue my minstrels as the fairy tale begins:
First it was the ‘yes’, followed by a date that ended with a fuzzy crown.
Then it was a quiet love that lived in awkward poems, freed from text
by her appreciation.
Graduation came, the two of us on stage, Valedictorians bringing in the future,
helping turn the page. Life was like a book, and I the people’s king, the
man who’d conquered everything.
I knew this more than I knew myself, I knew it better than anything
I’d learned from life. I was surer than any man had ever been
that this was God. He exists, and He loves me.
When I’d fall God would catch me, just so I could keep on jumping from
the tree to see if I could fly. This feeling was His gift, and as a humble man,
I thanked him, instead of her.
Mar 30, 2011
Mar 30, 2011 at 8:10 PM UTC
Two hundred and forty pounds, and not an ounce of confidence.
I’ve got weight enough for two women, and a heart heavy enough for three,
but I’m still waiting for the one.
Not a single date to my name, with Senior Prom a week away.
What happened next, the blind man who walked into The *** of Gold
called miraculous.
It was five feet, four inches, one hundred and twenty pounds of she’s too
good for me. Miss Horizon High School: the past star of my silent affections.
I cue my minstrels as the fairy tale begins:
First it was the ‘yes’, followed by a date that ended with a fuzzy crown.
Then it was a quiet love that lived in awkward poems, freed from text
by her appreciation.
Graduation came, the two of us on stage, Valedictorians bringing in the future,
helping turn the page. Life was like a book, and I the people’s king, the
man who’d conquered everything.
I knew this more than I knew myself, I knew it better than anything
I’d learned from life. I was surer than any man had ever been
that this was God. He exists, and He loves me.
When I’d fall God would catch me, just so I could keep on jumping from
the tree to see if I could fly. This feeling was His gift, and as a humble man,
I thanked him, instead of her.
Giving god credit, instead of who really deserves it... planning on adding another stanza to elaborate on the relationship between the young couple.
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