June 2010
I’d love to tell you that I miss you more than these texts could ever come together to word out, but I wont, and I surely never will because sometimes “I miss you” is just another phrase like “I love you” overused and under felt, and never steals your breath quite like it does in person. The two phrases that no matter how much I try, I could never write words for let alone say them aloud to you when you fly across this country again, for the true meaning behind them could only be read if you were to retrace your footprints and follow them back to where yous first realized that i liked and cared about you underneath all the cobwebbed feelings that i kept to myself. So retrace them and you’d find the place that I hide so well that you’ve already looked at curiously and thought nothing was there, you’d find your spot in my heart.
Day 1 — Your Best Friend
Day 2 — Your Crush
Day 3 — Your parents
Day 4 —Your sibling (or closest relative)
Day 5 — Your dreams
Day 6 — A stranger
Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Day 8 — Your favorite internet friend
Day 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
Day 10 — Someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to
Day 11 — A Deceased person you wish you could talk to
Day 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Day 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you
Day 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from
Day 15 — The person you miss the most
Day 16 — Someone that’s not in your state/country
Day 17 — Someone from your childhood
Day 18 — The person that you wish you could be
Day 19 — Someone that pesters your mind—good or bad
Day 20 — The one that broke your heart the hardest
Day 21 — Someone you judged by their first impression
Day 22 — Someone you want to give a second chance to
Day 23 — The last person you kissed
Day 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
Day 25 — The person you know that is going through the worst of times
Day 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to
Day 27 — The friendliest person you knew for only one day
Day 28 — Someone that changed your life
Day 29 — The person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Day 30 — Your reflection in the mirror
I could just keep telling myself that I don’t love you
But I think my heart knows better ‘cause I can’t help but adore you
Even with all your false promises, then acting like you don’t remember all of it
You’re a scene and now I’m a part of it.
Boy, can’t you see
We’re so bittersweet
I like the way we do our own thing
And sometimes when you kiss me
I forget to breathe
But then you go and dismiss me
Yeah you break me
Just so you can fix me
And I guess that’s alright, ‘cause you’re…
Just gonna stand there
And watch me burn
But that’s alright
Because I like
The way it hurts
Just gonna stand there
And hear me cry
But that’s alright
Because I love
The way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
Every good trait that you have
Is cancelled out by something bad
I want to leave
But you change my mind
I wanted to go
But you were just in time
More pretty words, more promises
More and more lies to fill my head
Just another untruth from you
I know what I should do
But in a way
We’re meant to be
‘Cause see, I can’t speak innocently
You know my ways and you know my games
But still you stay too
It’s like when I stop holding my breath
Yeah when I feel there’s nothing left
You come back around just to…
Just gonna stand there
And watch me burn
But that’s alright
Because I like
The way it hurts
Just gonna stand there
And hear me cry
But that’s alright
Because I love
The way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I sit here and I watch this writing suddenly appear on this screen as my peripheral vision showcases my hands tapping away vigorously. Where is it coming from? Sure ain’t my heart, but then again my minds been closed for so long, numbed with the boredom of this atmosphere. I want to get away from this world we’ve created so badly, but then again this is life, this is reality, this is the rest of my god damn life, and you’re playing in it with me too. We’re sipping the drinks, kissing those strangers, slurring those words. You’re telling her you love her and you think she’s cute out of niceness, she takes it all too seriously and the rest is history. Suddenly you’re a bad guy, a player, all because you told someone she’s cute too. But you know your not bad inside, or a player, they really both were just cute. “But hey, why not just play along and be an asshole to the rest of them?” yeah, that’s right. I’m chewing on this bottle cap now. I swear I’m not even thinking. It’s like words just pour out of my hands, maybe my mind is in my hands and that’s why I can never explain myself enough emotionally let alone any other way unless its through a keyboard and this damn screen that’s still writing for itself in front of me. You know what… Blah blah blahhh. Haha, wow, I thought that purposely and bam, it writes it for me! My mouths getting pretty full of saliva now, this caps pretty good, damn you know what? That means I’m going to have to actually drink the rest of the water bottle, ahh you can’t have everything. I sit here, and I miss having that person to cuddle on cold nights like tonight, that same person that as much as I’ve tried really is irreplaceable in a world of boys that are too busy creating awkward silences but yet I’m too damn stubborn to give up this city. I really do love it here, I wish I could share even just one more day with you… maybe I really should just follow my minds train of thought and move. But what happens when I do? What about my family? My friends; my bestfriend especially? What if I move, what if helping you breaks me truly? I wish things weren’t so complicated because I’m at my worst when you’re not here. And I’m sure I can’t be anymore broken. I’ll never let you know but I’ve given you me; my heart, my soul, my smile, my everything and it’s all for you to use until you’re at your best. It’s like nothing else could matter now that I’m with you. That boy, that man, that kiss meant nothing because it’s your kiss that means something, it’s your hugs that mean the most. It’s your eyes that catch the sunlight and reflect me looking at you through them, not his, or hers, or anyone else’s. It’s your neck that I bite the way that I do, it’s our embrace that I exhale to the way that I do. It’s you that makes this moment one to remember. It’s that still gives me butterflies two years down the track.