I was covered in darkness before I found you.
Or was it you who found me?
Shrouded in pain, embedded in bitterness,
yet somehow you described me as "sweet"
And I guess you saw something
that made me worth the try
Or maybe you saw someone
and looked in his eyes
And you saw through it all
You saw through my writing and broke the facade
I wasn't faking, but the person I presented wasn't
accurate to the person bearing the gift
And you saw something in me
and dared me to live
And I wasn't quite dead but I was about to give
in
to the worst of the world
and for what? Because of money and girls.
Things I always lacked and
therefore, things I used to measure myself
Having one balances out the absence of the other,
but when you have neither, how can you take cover
from the shots fired your way?
I always felt like others laughed at my pain
and so I retreated - I hid within the words
and I smiled through the jokes and my heart took the hazing
and with everyone so far ahead of me, I wondered
what's the point in me even racing?
And then you came
and interrupted everything.
Somehow, in spite of my intention to resist,
you broke through the barrier and placed the sweetest kiss
on my lips and reminded me
that sometimes, the darkness gets lonely.
And I can't say for sure
that you've brought me back to the light
but I am absolutely certain
that everything I feel with you is absolutely right.
Because of you, I was reminded that this
... THIS, is what love is supposed to feel like.
