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Jun 2015
I want you to love me--
Please only love me as long as I live,
The very moment my eyes stop fluttering,
and no longer smile when they are watching the world.
That to close my eyes you would have to push them down;
one eye is blue and one eye is green
you can remember this
but keep remembering I am no longer here.

Because when I am watching you
from the skyline subway train to some place unknown;
to the living world, your world.
I want to be able to see you,
but not to see you loving people that are no longer there
or in the bottom of some bottle
dreaming that this will bring me to you,
even though spirits grant my image
they can never bring mine back.

Instead you should find new love--
one that can bring you to the living
because it's something I can't do anymore.
So when I am taking this final trip out
instead of seeing spoiled love that maybe ended too soon.
I'll be able to see one that lasted a life time--
I won't have to wish this was a movie
since we'll both know even without me you'll still be happy.

All I ask is that you choose to remember me
that when you see those two colors: blue and green.
It will remind you of how my eyes were different colors
and to take a short moment to look into the sky.
Remember that I am no longer here
but when I was, we loved each for a life time...
Just thinking about how I would want the person/people that love me to only love me while I am living, because once I am gone I want them to keep living their lives and to be happy even if I won't be there to enjoy it myself.
Michael Ryan
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Michael Ryan  31/United States
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