I’ve been loving you
for quite some time,

feels like I’ve been running for
all my life.

Floating in this huge,
immense crowd,

with so much noise
no one hears my shouts.

I didn’t know, at first
what I was looking for,

until I spotted you
in you shiny glow.

I knew I wanted
to be found,

I didn’t think someone
would lift me from the ground.

I was so scared
to be crushed,

so scared that
they’d turn me into ash.

I’ve surrounded myself
with so many one-way mirror,

so that I could see them,
but no one could see the tears on that pillow.

Just a reflection,
this is all I’ve ever been,

running wildly,
having no where to be.

Pleasing everyone with what
they wanted to see,

feeling lonely with
no one next to me.

But then you surprisingly
came along,

stopping me abruptly, noticing
something was off.

Your light was too brilliant
and your glow too strong,

you had to squint your eyes around me
all along.

And I couldn’t stay away
I couldn’t go,

I felt so warm
around your glow.

But I didn’t want to keep
hurting your eyes,

I wanted to shine with you,
to free my light.

But I was trapped, I didn’t know
how to escape,

how to leave those mirrors that had
always kept me safe.

You reached for me,
you pulled me out,

you took me away from that
suffocating crowd.

And as the mirrors were shuttering
on the spot I was before,

all I could hear was you telling me
“you’re home”.

Now my home is warm,
it shines so bright,

but the light comes from within,
not from someone standing on the outside.

So I’ve been loving you
for quite some time,

since I saw you standing
with your now familiar light.

I didn’t know what
I was looking for,

until I found your love,
a love that always felt like hope.