I've never really looked at you before, you've just always been there. I just saw you, stared and saw you, for the first time. I can see the pain you hide, the secrets and the sorrow, I can see all the parts you hide behind your mask. You always seemed so simple, look up and there you were, faithful like a dog. I give you too little credit.

I think that makes you strong, doesn't it? While the rest of us let loose, you sit and smile and pretend not to understand. We cry and hit and swear and you just say it don't matter, not at all. But you're just hiding, hiding, hiding.

I wonder how I didn't see it.

Heh... me, missing a point, a piece of the puzzle. Not like me at all. I should have known you had your demons, you never show it but we all do, so you must too. Why don't you behave like us? Are you trying to protect us? Me? Are we children to you?

And for all I see now, I've been missing the important bit... I never saw you loved me. You gave me all you had and more, you saved me from myself, you gave me a ground to home on to. And what did I give you?

Abuse, neglect, another charge.

Yet you still love me. I will never deserve you but I can try. I want to feel your warm arms again, to feel your pull.

And though I don't deserve it, I love you all the more...

Forever my beloved.