By Justin @ OSU
Date: 7 December 1999

Together, you and I, “us.”

I’ve asked myself a thousand times
Why the time seems to pass so slowly
Cause what I feel in my heart
Does not come close to the time we’ve spent,
It’s what gets to me when I hear the sound
Of the worries and concerns from 
All the people I know who aren’t there
Who don’t experience what we do, 
They can’t see all that goes on behind the scene.

Such as the times when we lie together
On your bed, my bed, or wherever
When we talk about so many things
Together we hold each other close and
My heart feels so open and secure
To be in that moment with you
The feel of your breath in and out
The beat of your heart on my chest
Whispers of your love in my ear

I remember the sensation of your hair
As it rests on my skin,
With an ever present and soft tickle 
Your arms wrap across me,
And your leg crosses over mine,
It is right there that split second I long to be,
That place where there is you and there is me
And that then becomes, us.

That’s when I knew it was love,
In that instant that I stopped saying
I want to, I need to, and I have to…
And I started to say words like: we and us
The way I knew that I was no longer alone
But I was holding something so precious
I realized I possessed in my hands your heart
And that I had already given mine to you
With out even realizing that I had.

So many things we have learned 
About one another in the moments we share
With the love that we’ve created,
The way my heart feels is so amazing
As I sit here so far away I feel ever close to you.
Even though this love is still so new
The images that flash in my mind 
How I see us down the line, 
Wonder what then will happen,
When the time finally catches up to us,
And everyone sees what we have become,
And then the wondering ceases,
But then again, we already knew so long ago.