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All I want is for you to be right here, healing me with your affection, taking good care of my worries, replacing my destructive thoughts with the good ones.

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5,437 is the distance in miles separating you from me right now. 8 is the number of hours between our two hearts. And as I lay in my bed, looking at the ceiling and counting miles and days and hours and minutes and seconds, I find myself missing you.

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I wish I could tell you that I am surviving, that you only enter my thoughts when the lights go out and my feet search for yours beneath the sheets. I wish I could tell you that long distance relationships get easier with age or experience, but they don’t.

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Though I want you to fall for me, I don’t want you to fall away from yourself.

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Stay so I can show you how beautiful the sky is on a summer night, or how the crickets sing their love melodies as the sun goes down. Stay so I can rewrite our histories, bring you even closer so I’ll never know your absence. Stay so I can kiss every wound on your heart, until you forget that you were ever broken.