YOU
By: Edna Nkera
Tags: Lovestory, Love Letters, Love

If you asked me why, I’d ask God to give me a chance

I’d ask God for a miracle and he’d give you a chance

If you asked me how, I’d ask you to give me a chance

I’d let you stand where I stand and see what I see

Feel what I feel

Be who I am and see who you are

My heart beats way too fast for no reason

At least I think there’s no reason

What I know is a story for another day

“ how can one person be so beautiful yet so broken?”

Beauty doesn’t come with any guarantees

Nothing natural comes with any guarantees

Time must be losing its weight. It’s not that heavy for me to push anymore

I’m losing track but this time, in a way that’s good for me

If you asked me why, my answer would be you

YOU…

Time within time

Hours within minutes

Strength within weakness

You moved distances and still stayed

I went so high up and still stayed

You

You’re amazing

I love you

I’m broken but my pieces do gather

I wish we could share each other’s pain and breathe life into each other

Your smile

My God, your smile

Your smile takes me back to the first time I thought I knew what love felt like. What I thought was love wasn’t actually love but what I felt was magical.

I found love in my mind but not in my heart. My mind fought for me more than my heart did. I took my heart’s side in the end but my mind remains my best friend.

You leave me with nothing when you look at me

You take everything including my sanity

I lose direction

I lose pace

You say “come here” and I give myself to you

I give you more control than I will ever give myself

You take my old and tired worries and replace them with worries about being without you

You do all this in the slickest of ways and you leave me wondering

Are you even real?

The dreams that I have are intense

It doesn’t matter whether it’s daytime or nighttime

My mind wanders and takes me a long way away from reality

Maybe you’re just another character in one of my dreams

Maybe God made this little world for me

Maybe God made you for me

Maybe God does love me that much

If you asked how, my answer would be me

Patience pays but it pains

The payment is worth the pain

My feelings taught me about patience and pain

My emotions

If I believed in fairies, I’d wish for peace

The greatest things are the ones that you give to yourself

I want to give myself peace but I constantly fail

I find myself in a maze that I can’t find my way out of

The only enemy I’ve ever had is myself

The greatest friend I’ve ever had is you

The thoughts in my head don’t belong to me anymore

Nothing belongs to me anymore

Do you hear me breathing heavily?

I think way more than I act

I’d be a totally different person if I put all my thoughts into actions

I’m a fire that burns white

You’re that part of me that won’t let me burn out

The part that brightens my flame and gives me the strength

That part that makes my flame bigger and gives me the courage to step out of my comfort zone

When your flame and mine come together, we create beauty that’s unmatched

We’re a fire that no mortal being can ever put out

When it’s you and I as one, there are no questions

When it’s you and I apart, you remain my reason for everything.

Words fail me when it comes to me

You’re the best definition of me

Sunflowers and roses

Bright and beautiful

You roll my darkness over

You break and rebuild different parts of me

You give and take

You take and give

If you asked me why

Why I love you

Why I think I love you

If you asked me how

How I came to love you

I’d give all these as my answers

I’d tell you about you

Then I’d tell you about me

You’d see you within me

All my answers would lead back to you

You’d see that it’s always been you

It will always be you.