My Butterfly

A single tear and ripples expand

You’re the only one to ever see me cry

This link between us I never planned

But

A single smile and my resistance was fried

Like chicken at a family reunion you

Stole my heart and lit up my smile

You’re quirks and queries

Are hard to define but

All I know is I want to call you mine

Your playful side that only comes out late at night or when you first wake up

You bring out the 5 year old in me

With a giggle or a touch

But at the same time making me stand up and deal with my shit

Telling me that unless I do                                                                

Adulthood will never really fit

Wise beyond your years I’ve found my kindred spirit

Beautiful in your individuality breathtaking in your beauty a knockout package

Baggage for miles to behold or wait maybe that’s mine lately its hard to really define where

You end and I begin

This started out real simply I barely even knew you

A crash course in decisions

Learning more about you each day

Finding more things to adore

Come to the end of the hall way and look

It’s a door…

A door leading to what?

Forever or heartache

Proceeding or retreating

I find that I’m to scared to open it instead finding myself standing here

waiting for you to catch up

but oh wait

Ur my driving force right behind me all the time

you’re the one shoving me into the door

Telling me to make up my mind

Forever or never which will it be

Well this poem is me

Opening that door and stepping through it

I’ve yet to see what lies beyond other than myself

And my own reality

The rest is up to you

Step through and join me

Or sit back in a past eternity

I’m here to hold you

To guide you and carry you when things are too hard

When you need me I’ll be at your side

Your greatest defender

You’re all my joy and pride

But wait let me make this simple

I love you like a fat kid loves cake

I love you like a raccoon loves a garbage can

I love you like ….

Well like a me would love a you

So let me make this simple

I’d scream it from the mountain tops, cry it from the rooftops, put it in a song, hell I’d even write you a poem

I want to lasso the stars in your eyes and bask in their shine

My greatest treasure is your heart of gold

My greatest high lies in your kiss

You’re like a butterfly

I want to catch you but I dare not touch your wings for fear of crippling you

Sit upon my shoulder love

And I’ll be your teddy bear