Seeing you is like coming home
But my home has been changing
For several years now
And I fear one day you will change too.
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Everything was just the slightest bit different. I decided I didn’t want the same things that I wanted desperately two weeks ago and I wish I could tell you why. I wish I could tell you how it feels to feel yourself shift in a different direction. And maybe everything will switch back in a week or two. Maybe it’s all a phase that many of us randomly go through. But if that’s the case, I’ll say it now before it’s too late – I don’t think I want this to change.
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“You can’t have the guy who thinks you walk on water. But you also can’t have the guy who pushes you off the boat…”
“…Unless he jumps in with you.”
– My friends & I in a cozy cafe last week; on people who treat you like you’re fragile, and those who don’t treat you like you’re much at all.
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And then one day it all becomes familiar
And you don’t think twice about the walk to your house
And you remember his smell as though he never left.
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And then she said, as though she had just decided in that moment, that when it came down to it, all she really felt was disappointed.
I hope one day you fall in love, and I hope it never disappoints you.