We are Love

*Disclaimer for you Dawn :).  I like understandjng that love is irrelevant of, but so much more because of the other.  I like that I can share this and know that it's about anyone I choose :))

I’ve loved you so much longer than I’ve known you

And when I saw you, I knew

Every piece of me was pulled

Even those bits that I forgot about

The ones that thought they were done with this world

But I sure as hell didn’t know how to be with you

And so I rebelled

I fought that love tooth and nail

Pretending it wasn’t real

Making excuses for my so-called solitude

For all those walls I have up

“Oh, it’s to protect me

Because love hurts, you know”

And so, I question my sanity

Then laugh hysterically at the answer that does not come

Because it wasn’t real

Those walls were like a puff of smoke

They are felt, but all you have to do is take a step forward and you’re through

And really, I don’t need you

I don’t need your devotion, your commitment, to feel complete

I’m just me, alone

Sometimes…

But other times I am so much more

Because of you

Because of what you remind me of

Of who you inspire me to be

Of who we are and what we create

Those tiny pieces of me that come alive with you

And so, my heart hurts when I’m not with you

The home it has found with you feels half-way vacant

I want to touch you

I want to explore you and share with you

I want to make love with you

Like really make it

Not that pretend sort of love that seeks approval

Or the kind that desires to possess as though it will fix

And I know we do

Make love

We make love better than anyone I know

We give that shit away like skittles

And everywhere we go together people smile

Because they know

That we are love

~ C