One minute she's there, and gone the next. I was always told that love isn't real if it's beautiful, but she was the only beautiful being on this Earth, I swear. I was also always told that you can't love until you see, so I guess I didn't love her after all. Seeing beyond to her imperfections was above me, but it sure felt like love when she was limp on the ground, and all I could feel for the next two months was the ghost of her once warm hands in mine. But maybe that wasn't love, either.
Maybe I was just lonely.
An Introduction by pornographic-potato, literature
Literature
An Introduction
It took so long for me to even look at you, let alone say hello. Honestly, after all that ended up happening between us, I wonder if returning your smile was really the best idea. How small a "hey" can seem, and how huge it can end up being. It's almost suffocating.