Relationships don't last

Especially high school relationships
But God dammit, I wish they did
Because your outlook on life has taught me so much. I've seen the world through the eyes of many before you.

Redundant black and white images float around in my head.

But with you, it's like looking through a kaleidoscope.

Your mind is full of colliding colors, shifting patterns, all spinning around.

And your words are like oxygen to me.

I breathe in every syllable  and swallow the meanings.

I digest them just to make sure It stays with me.

Each smile is like an extended metaphor, tracing the pages of the book of how it all came to be, leading to the here.

The right now.

Lingering on throughout me.

Your laugh echoes through my ears and circulates within my blood, causing permanent exposure to a sort of fondness induced leukemia that begins to eat away at me, but does less harm, and more good.

Each cell within my body forever changed by your touch and your passion for knowledge.

Each cell now immune to the syndicalism of the cruel world.

Each cell now predisposed to innocence and hope that was killed so long ago by the broken promises and shattered dreams.

Each glimpse into your eyes is like staring into those crystals with the power to heal, relieving me from the stresses and impurities that have shaped me.

And I know it's all temporary.

And high school relationships don't last.

But all I keep thinking is God dammit, I wish they did.