Everything I'm too scared to tell you.

thank you for loving me

you weren't my first love

but you were the first person to love me

you took my shattered heart and taped it

and even when the tape gave out you never did

you replaced it with pieces of your own

you saw my damaged soul and worked with me everyday to heal it

crawled into the darkest parts of my mind and left flashlights

you loved the parts of me that i hated the most

and paid the most attention to the things i was most insecure about

you changed my coping mechanism from running away to running to you

giving me things I've wanted my entire life

a family, a home. somewhere my soul can find peace

you worshiped the ground that i walked on even on my worst days

and questioned how no one before you had done the same

you put me on a pedestal when i had only known second best

the way you saw me as if i was the only piece of art known to the world

like you'd pay everyday just to sit and gaze

you saw more than empty hallways inside my plain brown eyes

you gave me the greatest escape

thank you for loving me