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I want you even when I’m not sure if you’re good for me anymore.

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I wanted you to teach me how to touch your heart, your body and your soul again and again and forever.

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But behind the smoke and mirrors, some emotional baggage still looms.

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They just wanted to end the confusion.

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And you, you who will fascinate me until the very essence of you permeate the molecules that make up my body, until all my atoms rearrange to revolve around you; I want you.

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Your hand hovers over their name in your phone, agonizing for minutes which somehow become hours, weighing the pros and cons of saying something as simple as “Hey.”

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I always wonder why adventure and career development and changing my mind can’t occur simultaneously with a fulfilling relationship. I always wonder why we look with a mixture of pity and bewilderment upon our former classmates who got married at 24.

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Realize how much you were happy to exaggerate or ignore because you wanted to keep the image you have of them in your head completely perfect.