I knew I was falling in love when the thought of you leaving took my breath away with it.
When losing the possibility of an "us" drowned my mind with sorrow and sent my heart overflowing with regret.
A world without you, is a world without air.

I'm impatient and insecure.
I'm scared and often times confused, yet you have become the only real thing I am sure about.
The only air my lungs want to breathe.

You've begun to unravel as the answer to most of the questions in my life.
Especially the ones I never thought of asking.
Your brutal honesty tears through my walls of insecurity.

But you never do it to hurt me.
You only do it to make me stronger.

I never thought I could love with the possibility of that love returned.

I always loved blindly.
Eyes closed I searched with outstretched hands in hopes of feeling something to hold on to.
Something real to guide me home.

But I stare at you with eyes wide open.
My feet gliding toward your presence like a moth to a flame.
I am drawn to the love I see burning inside you.

I'm scared of everything we could be.
I'm frightened by our potential and terrified of a possibility not lived.

But I can feel myself falling for you and there are only two directions to go.
I can crash to the ground in a helpless smash, or I can be lifted up into your arms.
I'm not sure which one will hurt the least.

I want to close my eyes to the thought of you and hold my breath,
But we always choke with eyes wide open.
Without you I am choking, but with you I am breathless.