The UNSPOKEN

When did you know it was real?

I knew it when

My heart skipped beats upon seeing you

I held onto wrappers from candy you gave me

Photo albums of us together seemed all-too perfect to be real

Even when I had your trust

Even when I had your touch

Even when I had your time

I couldn’t believe you were mine

When did I know?

I knew when thinking about you felt like the purest breath

I knew when I started hearing your name in corny radio love songs

I knew when anything remotely close to your scent smelled like heavenly incense

I knew when I drifted into my own thoughts

And people asked, 

“Why are you smiling?”

You, of course.

I don’t care if love is stupid.

I’m the biggest idiot of them all.

I have always reached for the stars.

I’m a high achiever

With big dreams

And a big imagination.

I have always reached for the stars.

The brightest,

The most beautiful,

The ones that light up the sky

In the darkness.

The bigger stars burn,

Like how the sun

Burns skin.

They started hurting.

They started peeling 

What I had created

Off the walls

Of my mind.

I looked around,

Searched for different stars,

Different dreams,

With a different perspective.

That’s when I found you.

You are the brightest,

The most beautiful,

The one that lights up the sky 

In my darkness.

You took the broken pieces

And turned them

Into something beautiful:

A constellation.

This constellation

Will be our promise,

Our story,

Our creation.