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This Is Us
I thought about what it'd feel like
 without you here as mine.
 I don't understand life that way.
 And it's unfathomable,
 unimaginable to me how
 you find it so easy to leave,
 easy to try so hard to leave.
 Leave me behind with nothing
 while you go in search of something..
 more
 Than what I am.
 But you haven't left yet.
 ...haven't left yet.
 Those words are sour on my tongue
 spoiled in my mouth
 And I can hardly bear the thought that
 it was me thinking them,
 those words,
 that possibility that I lie is an impossibility
 Because this has all happened before.
 It'll happen again,
 But what people don't see..
 See what I see..
 Is you.
 The you in me.
 How, 9:03 this morning your smile,
 that laugh from you across the room to me
 lit up my world if only for a moment,
 9:18 your words “and you
 look extremely
 cute
 today”
 made my life for the fiftieth time
 in one morning.
 Watching you walk in when I was missing you
 The only one missing you because I
 realized you were gone.
 The you that is everything I want to be
 When I reach the level of life that you have
 Your way of learning that I have yet to reach,
 because I'm the one you
 chose to hold your secrets,
 to love your truths for what they are.
 The one you trust with you
 because you are who I am.
 And people can't see that,
 they aren't me.
 You remember that.
 Remember your trust in me
 Because you're the only one who seems to forget it
 Forget the us that I love
 and make it the us that I hate
 when that's the us
 I refuse to let us create because it...
 well, it isn't us.
 And I want you to see the you
 that I can see.
 How, 7:32,
 Your lips on my forehead burned your mark of
 “mine” 
 into me forever and it
 won't ever
 disappear like I'm scared 
 you will the second I
 let go of your hand.
 See the light in your eyes
 that reminds me of the
 sparkle of the star
 you told me leads to Neverland...
 8:27.
 And 8:42, hugging you goodbye and good night
 for the seventh time because
 neither you or me can seem to turn
 in opposite directions.
 This is us.
 10:19,
 Promising to buy me a movie and
 Lay with me, all because
 I asked;
 Surprising me with the gift of your time
 That you don't see as a
 gift.
 Oh my god, how I love you.
 This is what they don't see.
 The angel hidden in you, 
 chained by the doubts
 others have branded into your skin,
 the doubts I'm trying to end.
 The doubts I throw onto
 myself
 in a foolish attempt to
 Remove them from you,
 cure you from them to no end.
 They weren't with us!
 Remember that, we were
 the only two.
 The two on our own journey
 to finding who we are, 
 who us is.
 And they weren't there inside us
 when we went through our
 challenges,
 go through our challenges,
 Hurdle over fences and dodge
 the barbed wires.
 Remember that I know,
 you shouldn't hide your faces,
 the anger that is fear for us,
 for your family too
 because they're there with us
 Living day to day,
 seeing how we are
 But no one sees how we are,
 not even us
 But what us is, is so beautiful
 Life would
 Stop
 Without it, and I know
 You see it too.
 The strength of
 Me and you
 Even in the weaknesses we have too.
 10:42,
 Your sorry for the things
 you do wrong
 When in my eyes
 you don't do wrong
 You learn as you go,
 just like me.
 How many people don't see you're
 like me?
 You get mad,
 so can I!
 Thursday night,
 back a week or two
 Blowing up over a stupid
 thing with you..
 I don't even talk about fights
 When fights happen
 With the friends I should 
 Talk about them with
 because the bad just makes our
 good three trillion times infinity
 beautiful moments better than
 they were.
 In my eyes us is different,
 even more so in my heart.
 Because I will never dream
 of the day that us falls apart
 I don't think you see I
 won't live through it
 which is why you'll be the one
 to do it
 But what I will dream of
 is our forever.
 That always that we laugh about.
 In the car, 9:57
 Alone together,
 You telling me that yes,
 One day, we'll be in love still,
 married,
 Just the way you have planned.
 And I beg you to keep your
 magical words
 Because to me they're real.
 More real to me than
 Anything else has ever been,
 And maybe that's why I love you.
 You're the one thing that
 has ever been different,
 Ever willing to know the me that
 I wish I was,
 even though I can't be that
 girl.
 But you love me too,
 Which is even more real,
 Because that's what's most different
 About you.
 The us that I've dreamed of
 Came in your body, mind, heart.
 To stay on that couch,
 white and old, upstairs,
 That's all I ever want to do
 Because that's who we are.
 Where we were born.
 6:13 I found that spot on your back
 Where your warm skin is
 So sensitive it gives me the power to
 Make you laugh..
 Like when you sprinkle your 
 Long fingers down the sides
 of Me where my ribs
 Wrap around my heart,
 And I giggle until I cry.
 This is who you are
 When they aren't looking.
 Falling to the floor in a storm
 of blankets,
 Hardly breathing because
 our laughter is so much more important
 than air.
 This is us, love.
 I wish they saw.
 I wish they saw the you that
 Isn't the you who I 
 Describe you to be,
 but the one that you are,
 the one that is so many
 colors of amazing
 that words run out
 Before I'm done simply saying
 You're beautiful. 
 Wonderful.
 Mine.
 That's who you are
 When you're not angry
 not sad..
 Not afraid...
 I see that.
 You need to see that too,
 Because I know you can't.
 I love you,
 Hear me out loud when my mouth
 Won't move.
 I love you, and it will 
 Always..
 Always 
 be that way.
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