people say the greatest thing you can do in this life
is love and be loved
i believe very strongly in this

i remember how it felt when it first
began.i talk i talk i talk
until i make sense what i say
is true? am i to turn and find myself alone?
i stop, i look. you are by my side
and you are smiling nodding forgiving loving
to be loved, i thought

you take the things i don't like about myself
kiss them and let them fall sweetly behind me
hold my shaking hands
return my words
reciprocity is sweet and dangerous
i try hard to be smart, not passionate
i have never felt
this scared to be beautiful

the way you see me,
you turn me into light
for what i could not describe, even about myself
the innate nameless emotion - the longing
to find oneself
you took my hand and showed me what it meant
to be true

i am TRUE now.
i do not need you to be true
but why love for the sake of loving?
love because there is a soul
that asks you, personally, for love
it is a beautiful thing to love and be loved

it is exactly as i love you that i love myself
i will build myself up with wings of an angel
skin so soft it could cut you in two
i will be smart and i will be passionate
i will become the light
i will talk talk talk my truths till i shine.