By Briana Kassia
Date: 2009 Feb 24
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for better, for worse

I can't sleep at night without you
I worry about you
I could waste entire days in dreaming your presence.
the world is a better place for me
because you're in it
but a sadder one because I now know
what it is I've been missing
I ache inside with needs unexpressible, unescapable
I miss the sound of your voice
the touch of your lips,
your warmth and closeness
all the things I have yet to feel
but... they are outweighed by all the feelings
you have awakened in me
I love how you make me feel lovely
funny, vibrant, happy
even when I am not any of those things really
your sleeping breath is sometimes my only comfort in a bleak world of pain
your soft voice entreating me to
feel you across the miles
reminds me who I am inside the shell of hurts
your heart opens the window to the brightness
of the butterfly inside the chrysalis

I wish I could show you that even when we argue,
even when I stalk away in a rage,
tears and fury sparking
I'm still yours,
and always will be
(even when I don't want to be.)
baby, you drive me crazy
a rollercoaster spiral of ups and downs
and I hate rollercoasters

but someday you'll hold me
and I will know
and you'll feel me
and you will know
by this same distantly deep belonging
that there need never be doubt
fear
loneliness
in either heart
ever again.