I used to love you so much
.
I did, I truly did, once
upon a time.
When the thought of you
made me shiver
When hearing your name
made my heart skip a beat.
When seeing your face,
your smile didn't just give me butterflies but I could feel a whole
tribe bagging on jungle drums.
I could smell you, as soon
as you walk in a room.
I could smell you, on the
clothes of my friend you hugged this morning.
On my clothes, frankly I
could smell you everywhere.
You were my sweetest
obsession.
And it made me happy, you
made me happy.
You weren't truly mine,
but you weren't anyone else' either.
I saw hope in your eyes, I
saw hope in your smiles, I felt love in the way you use to hold my
hand.
I wanted to believe that
it was true.
That the sun was shinning
this morning only because of you.
Every word you
mispronounced made me want you a little more.
I don't like admitting it
but I secretly loved when our friends called you “mine” because
we were indeed so amazing next to each other (together).
I liked you so much it
could have hurt so bad but it just felt so great.
I was afraid that saying
it out loud would just kill the dream.
I was afraid that saying
it out loud would force you to give me an answer, and what if you
didn't feel the same way ?
What if you didn't want
me?
What if you disliked me?
Those were thoughts I
couldn't even bare to think of, so I stayed quiet.
Quiet and happily drugged
by my feelings for you. Making sure hope was still there.
And suddenly, it stopped.
The dream in my head, the
high of love, the hope in your eyes/your smiles. All gone!
Some people still called
you mine, refusing to believe that our unbegun story was already
over.
But we all knew that you
were gone, you left my life ( but not my dreams).
So I sat down in the rain
and look at you, hurting, crying, bleeding.
Hurting as your hand held
someone else's.
Crying as your arms wrap
themselves around someone else, making sure your sent gets into her
skin.
Bleeding as you looked and
smiled at someone else, knowing that once upon a time those were for
me and only me.
So I tried to forget you.
I tried to forget your smell, your smile, your eyes, your face. I
tried to forget you ever existed.
I put my heart on hold,
told it to go on holidays. That I didn't need to feel anymore
because feeling is hurting. And I didn't want to feel the pain
anymore.
And after a while I tried
to get back on track, I put my heart on IV, and decided that life was
too beautiful to let feelings ruin it.
But life wasn't beautiful,
I tried to drive forward, reach the finish line and but the road was
slippery, dangerous and I drove off a cliff.
As I was falling, you came
back to me.
You came back to me, a
little.
I wasn't sure if it was
real but it felt so good that I convinced myself it was.
I was wandering into
darkness, wandering into emptiness.
And the thought of you
possibly being at the end of the tunnel was the only thing keeping me
going.
But at the end of the
tunnel you weren't who I expected you to be.
You weren't who you made
me believe you would be.
Who I made myself believed you
would be.
I just wanted to pour
myself into you.
But you were so cold, so
distant, so unavailable.
I was expecting the sun,
but I was so wrong.
I came out the tunnel walking straight to a Fortress of Solitude.
I was alone and confused.
But you were there, looking at me.
I looked into your eyes
and I remembered how happy you made me feel.
I looked into your eyes
and I remembered how much I used to like (love) you.
I looked into your eyes
and I remembered your smell, your smiles, all those quirks that made
you perfect for me.
So I held on to you. I
held on tight.
Because someone who once
made me feel so complete couldn't be so bad.
Because beside all the
pain and the tears, the thought of you still made me smile.
Because I still smelled
you in some places, and your name still made my heart skip a beat.
So I tried, I tried to be
yours again. I tried to be yours for the very first time.
Your voice in my head got
me flying so high, that when I started crashing again it took me a
while to realise.
I fell and crashed, but
this time it didn't hurt.
Not anymore or at least
not as much.
I didn't care. I didn't
care about you anymore.
I am still not free from
you, and maybe I will never be.
Because once you've felt
something this strong it never truly goes away.
It stays like a small scar
on your knee, but it doesn't hurt anymore.
I used to love you,
I used to love you so much
.
I did I truly did, once
upon a time.
When the thought of you
made me shiver
When hearing your name
made my heart skip a beat.
But now I don't anymore or
I can't.
I feel something, but it
is so irregular, so unknown, so not understandable,
that I don't know
if it should count as something.
If there is something I
don't know if I can (want) to go down that road again.
All I know is that I once
felt so much for you that I don't know if there is anything left for
me to feel.
I think I ran out of love
for you.
But then again, my heart
still skips a beat … sometimes.