your shadow lingers
just as your touch
i'm being traced
head to toe
i shudder
my lips remember you
even when i don't
quit saying you know better
knowing means nothing
do something
and maybe i'll stay to watch
sometimes
i miss you
like i have you to miss at all
or i hate you
like i have something to say
or i love you
like i remember anything other than bad
you don't need to be everything
just all the things
God's made you to be
give you the eyes i use
so you can see
you really are
the one i want to choose
tell me a memory
just let me in
i promise you won't notice
i'll slip in ever so silently
and sit ever so still
but i can't promise my love
won't change things
in fact i hope it does
i hope my love comes to rest
in heavy heart
laden chest
i pray you notice me
in the middle of all your storytelling
and rather than kicking me out
you ask me to stay
it helps no one
to get half of you
what you call
the "better" side
in fact
if you bring half
my insecurity will have me bringing a third
even less
it's crazy
i know
but the more of you, you bring
the more others are freed up
to bring themselves too
my head is yelling at me
why can't i mute the pain
when will it leave from here
i can't think talk write straight
everything's running in squares
dancing in triangles
i'll check back in when it comes to an end
we press on
you press on
i press on
he pressed on
for the joy set before him he endured the cross
we carry our cross
you carry your cross
i carry my cross
for we know the sufferings of this present age
are nothing compared
to the glory that is to be revealed
we press on
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