I love you. I love everything about you
No, not just what you say is your favorite like you're trying to pretend only one piece of you matters
The way you stutter when you forget how to think straight around me
The way your eyes glaze over with pure joy when you hear my voice
The way you say you love me too
No, not just when it's out loud
When you do that thing where your nipples make for the hardest staring contest of my life when I can't look away for your smile
When your legs wrap around my body like a bicycle lock would stop me from ever wanting to leave you
Because when you tell me you love me with everything you do, I can't help but love you with more than just my heart. I start loving you in ways I swore I couldn't
But that was a lie. I said I loved you and I'm sorry I didn't mean it.
I still daydream about the way your body was the only thing I ever wanted to read
I still wish I never put you down
That if I took a bus to your house, you wouldn't say you'd love me too
You'd just kiss me like I was finally waking up from the nightmare of ever leaving you
Care for me in ways I pretended I didn't need
Propose to me that we can do it all again
I don't want to fall in love with anyone new
I want to you and only you
Only your love that shrouded so much of my pain I thought I was being happy when I was with you
Only your smile that made my heart skip straight to yours as soon as it kissed my chest
Because nothing matters to me more than you
Nothing could ever add up to what I reminisce about
I fell in love with what I saw you as, but not what you were
It's like. . . Loving a tornado just because my furniture is in place in spite of the walls being in a new town
Making a statue of you without your birthmarks to stroke like I'm trying to rub away a bruise
Every day, I want to confess to you all over again that I never stopped loving the IDEA of you
Because nothing is more perfect than the way you look in my mind
Nothing is more poisonous than the sounds you make in my head as I go to sleep
Because if I was addicted to drugs, I could at least find a sponsor that'll stop me when I get close to it
But with you, I don't want anything to stop me from thinking of you
All I want is something stronger
Something to overwhelm me so much I could still feel the way your attention gripped me like someone afraid of heights would clench their ass on a suspension bridge
Something like a way to taste your lips when you bite them thinking about me
Something so like you, I could have it since you're gone