Don't forget this…
Don't forget this moment with me…
We may not always have love… but you'll always have my heart…
So, don't forget this.
Because this is all about us…
/ * / * /
Before Aiden and those lies and that sister, I took your hand in mine and you smiled – brighter than the California sun – and I fell in love with the girl you showed me.
She was a little tattered at the edges, frayed and torn, but I knew she was built of stronger stuff.
Beyond the cloth was the stone, beyond the stone was the ground… and I placed my feet down upon you, solid and sure, ready to have you.
I was ready to have you.
And you smiled at me, brighter than the California sun, and you ran away with me.
/ * / * /
I saw the second you gave in, with the faintest touch of my fingertips to the column of your neck and the salt-water coating us and the push of summer at our backs…
…I saw the second you gave up.
You were my beautiful dream and I slumbered all my days with you.
And your lips found my lips.
And your arms found my arms.
And your heart found my heart.
And I never thought I'd lose you to anyone or anything, with the sunset against the wall in your room and your breath like a wave over my chest and sweetly spoken words hovering above.
/ * / * /
Don't forget this…
Don't forget this moment with me…
We may not always have love… but you'll always have my soul…
So, don't forget this.
Because this is all about us.
/ * / * /
Oh, you did all you set out to do, didn't you?
And then some… and then some…
You captured the willing, a damsel to your distress, and in that tower you put me – with no bed sheets for escape and your long locks forever removed.
You did all you said you wouldn't do, didn't you?
And then some… and then some…
But loving you isn't the worst of it all.
It is remembering that you once loved me, too.
That's the blade that cuts the deepest and turns every corner into a painful memory and makes this state a heavy blanket on my bones.
Oh, you did it all, didn't you?
And then some…
…and then some…
/ * / * /
Don't forget this…
Don't forget this moment with me…
We may not always have love… but you'll always have this moment…
So, don't forget this.
Because this is all about us.
/ * / * /
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