You're My Gift.

Forget the silver wrapping paper & studded glitter bows.
No amount of tinsel-sprinkled decoration could mask the beauty of the item inside/
Give me all of your love just the way it is.
I'd much rather be wrapped up in that.
You make me feel free & that I can fly higher than the sky, stars & planets.

When I felt abandoned, you made me wanted.
You're my other half to the whole puzzle that is my heart.
When those other 3 words escaped your mouth and warmed the air,
it had sounded surreal , like a mirage of a sparkling aqua oasis in the Sahara.

It was as if there was a silent affinity that only you and I felt.
I knew somehow, someway you would be a part of my life.
First, we started off in the friend zone
We had inside jokes and a language that only we understood.

I could be as silly as a circus clown
And I was still the same girl in your eyes.
Then our conversations started to get a little deeper.
My feelings started to get a little stronger.

Before I knew it, I was seeing you as more than my friend.
I had ascended up to love for the first time, and boy, was I high!
All I had thought was that you were all mine & mine only.
I dreamed of having your last name, building up a legacy,
looking into your eyes 30 years later & still see those
two love struck teenagers who couldn't keep their eyes off each other.

You had become the beginning, middle & end of my story.
My connection to the living world rested with you.
Please do not walk away from our empire.
The sight of watching it all crumble to pieces would hurt in ways I could not even begin to explain.