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Dakota Apr 2024
I love in a lot of little ways
I love in baking shortbread
And pancake brunch
I love in cuddling pets that i am So allergic too
But they're too cute to resist
I love in midnight drives
Late night talking
I love in answering any questions you ask
I love in staring from across the room
Admiring your freckles and the most contagious smile
I love in trying to learn your favorite song on the piano,
Though I don't play very well, but I know that's not what matters
I love in Photos of my friends,
Blurry and dark but I know who it is
I love in playing my favorite songs for you,
And remembering what songs you say i might like
I love in shooting star wishes
And a gentle hand as I pass by
I love in drunken cuddles and soft sighs
I love in closeness and in distance,
Whether you're next to me or in the stars
I love in looks that say I love you when I'm too afraid to speak
Listening to gentle snoring as I fall asleep
I love in picking dog fur off your lips
Going for freezing dips
Laying on the beach half naked
Opposite halves as we would have it
Whole in our differences and I love that about us

I haven't told you I love you yet,
I wonder if you too lay awake at night thinking about the ways you love
I hope to you, love is like poetry the way it is to me
January 2 2024
Dakota Apr 2024
Today was amazing and that hurts so bad
I'm afraid of losing you and everything we had,
the nights we spent up late
Talking and baking bowl cake

I missed us
and i got to see it again
Dancing in the kitchen,
Cuddling on the couch,
The way you get So angry
When you're losing a game

I missed your smile,
Not the closed mouth smile,
The toothy smile
Its gorgeous,
When you get a text or see something on your phone
You think I'm not looking at you,
Just for a second
Your lips curl into the most beautiful smile

I wish I had the words to tell you how I feel
But instead I leave it unsaid
Because I've said so much
That you didn't want to hear

I'm too attached
and I know you are too
but in a different way
and I just cant get that clue

Well, I get it
I ignore it
In the hopes that you'll forget
and come back to loving me
Maybe the way you did

We Are much closer now,
and you do love me
I know that
But it's in a different way

And sometimes it's perfect
Like today,
We sat at the table,
Where just a small distance can feel so far,
But then you reach out and take my hand
We're as close as ever, maybe closer
We've grown so much
and we've still got a lot to do

I've missed you
I hope you've missed me too
Dakota Apr 2024
I know the last while has been ******* you
You think you've lost your shine
But any time i see you smile,
You brighten the room more than the sun ever could

Existem bilhões de estrelas no céu,
Mas a minha favorita,
E a mias brilhante,
Está aqui comigo
Dakota Apr 2024
Soft touch and gentle kisses on my chest
I can feel again!
You're intoxicating,
With each kiss i sink deeper
I'm in over my head,
Drowning in my love for you
Then your hand reaches the back of my head
Down to my neck
Pulls me in closer
Your skin on mine
Soft lips caressing my neck
Suddenly drowning felt more like floating

And the best part;
When it came time to sleep,
You didn't turn away,
You turned To me
We exchanged "I love you"s and said our goosenights

I didn't let go for the rest of the night
"I can feel again!" - It was the first time i had sensation in my chest after top surgery
July 5 2023 7:54 am
Dakota Apr 2024
I am Loving and Scared
I wonder what two words others would use
I hear a dozen different things
I see my closest friend smiling from the crowd as I read their lips
"Kind"
I want those I love to feel they are valued

I am Loving and Scared
I pretend I'm not afraid to dissuade others from fear
I feel guilty for situations I had no hand in
I touch my hand to theirs in an attempt to ground us both
I worry I'll someday lose them, or worse, they'll push me away
I cry when I'm alone and think of all that will be lost to time

I am Loving and Scared
I understand that such is the cycle of life
I say "I Love you" but the words are misunderstood
I dream of feeling warm and safe in someone's embrace
I try to be open to all opportunities
I hope that it will lead me down the right path

I am Loving and Scared
July 3 2023
Dakota Apr 2024
"We're under the same sky"
A romanticized memory.
Now I see,
It was nothing more than fantasy.
You and I,
We were never "meant to be"
I've seen the past the anger that you hide beneath.
It's hard to see why we ever thought that we could be.
But,
I remember all the nights that you were there for me.
On call while I counted the few stars I could see.
Dakota Oct 2021
Blue is the flavor of bland warm berries
Made into delicious fresh pies
Of nights spent stargazing upside down in driveways
It's the flavor of moments mostly forgotten
At playgrounds and corner stores

Blue tastes like secrets
Hidden sips and soft hands
Like salty air and crunchy marshmallows
It tastes like hot chocolate
On a long bus ride home

Blue has always been the sweetest colour
Almost all the best flavors and memories are Blue

Well, that was the case
Until I met you
You've coloured my world yellow
And it too is beautiful like blue
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