Neal
I'll be here when you can't breathe through your tears. I'll be here when you don't want to speak. I'll be here when all you want to do is talk. I'll be here for you through the holidays and especially on your birthday. I'll be here when you gush about a girl whose changed your life and I'll be here when you say she's gone from your life. And I won't be jealous like I used to and I won't get that pain in my chest when you say she's amazing. No, I'll be here to listen even when you don't even ask me how my day was. And I'll still be here when you don't talk to me for days because goddamn it I want you. There's a part of me that thinks if I'm always there for you, you'll realize how great I am like in the movies. But I forget that this isn't a movie but God, I really want it to be. That way I could fast-forward to the part where we kiss. And afterward I'd want to showcase the movie all over the world so they would know you were mine. But life isn't a movie, and we don't kiss at the end and so you don't realize how great I am, and I'm still here -- always here. Always here and just waiting for the movie to end.
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How I Love You
Poetry". . . . Then must you speak / Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well; / Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, / Perplex'd in the extreme. . . ." -Act 5, Scene 2 of Othello by W. Shakespeare A collection of poems to the boys and men I hav...
