I have been trying to stop romanticizing introductions Attempting to grasp the reality That not everyone I meet is a potential soulmate My mind was just born open I guess Conditioned to want to love at first sight I am more so addicted to people than I am smoking I have been trying my hardest To keep my expectations low Understand that not everybody has the intention of staying I have had too many hellos turn into goodbyes And Too many hugs turn to leaving I had been trying To learn the opposite of welcome Embrace temporariness with arms as wide as my eaget heart So when we met On a directionless sunday In the living room you were calling home for the week Know that It took everything in my power To not let down my guard It wasn't until the quiet of the night That I realized I had already dropped Goodnight turned to words to questions To 3am caress I was in your arms before I could even stop myself from letting go But you Are not the meaningless One night momentary bliss I am used to You Are everything I have tried to avoid For fear of losing again I am trying to figure out how it is possible That you are the kind of thing I'd been attempting to refrain from Yet exactly what I want at the same time You are the nicotine from the 5am cigarrette on your last night in town Your goodbye serving as reminder to everytime I have been let down But there was more hope in your seven letter goodbye Than there is in any poem I have ever written I am saying grace in a language that I still do not fully understand And although both distance and time Are two names that usually define ending I see beginning I see different When we kissed I could taste the promise of future on your lips My hands spelled out in the creases of your back Said exactly the same as you did before you left Said please don't forget me So please Don't.