i wanted so
much when i was younger, i wanted to feel
someone's breath on my cheek as i slept (someone who meant the most,
meant everything) i wanted to know
how it
felt to curl into someone's chest
maybe even have their hand brush over the back of your
head (so softly that you can't even feel
it—the gesture is enough, the gesture shows that
they needed it for comfort, they needed to feel
you there—that, i think,
that is
enough) i wanted so much
passionate things, fights and tears and kisses and a hug
that you can feel so tight it feels like your bones are
creaking. i wanted so much i even wanted
the pain there too (just so i
knew—knew that it had once been
good, once been real)
it is so real sometimes i feel it
again even after all this time, that breathless feeling of
not again,
not this feeling, make it
stop— (did you get
everything you asked for?) (maybe. maybe i didn't
know what i was asking
for) (yeah—yeah, i don't think
you did) i wanted so much and i got more than i needed (more than i
wanted) my insides are a bit hollow from
all the things i got (my eyes are a bit too dry these
days,
from all the tears
i've
cried)
for you, for myself (as selfish as it is,
they were mostly
just for me)