I wanted you to be
the one in the car beside me
sitting still
watching the lights on the freeway
pass us by

speaking quietly
words about ourselves and each other
using stories as a reason to stay
there in the moment  

I wanted the way you can hear someones smile
rather than see it
I wanted you to be one hundred percent mine  
just for that short amount of time

I wanted you to be a simple pleasure
a single simple moment  

I wanted you to be something you were not
for I came to realize

you were not simple at all