puzzle piece

I’ve been trying to hide the words

Not sure if I'm ready for that

But the way that my heart feels around you

Makes it hard to ignore

It seems so crazy to think about

And I don't know if it’s just me

I know that I fall hard and fast

That’s something I’ve learned from my past

But I’m more cautious this time

I want it to be real

I want it to be right

I don't want to just think that I feel it

Based on how I’m feeling that night

But I look in your eyes and I melt

Lay my head on your chest and I’m home

You make me feel safe and seen

Like you’d always have my back

Small things with you feel so comfortable

It’s like we were always supposed to be this way

Am I crazy?

Even as I ask, I don't feel like I am

Yet I’m still scared to go there

Afraid of what that would mean

It seems like a point of no return

But maybe I don't want to return

Maybe I want to keep discovering with you

Learning and growing,

Changing and knowing

Why does it feel like I could do life with you?

It comes easy and fast

I don't have to put myself into a scenario

Because it feels like I’m already there

Before it was like there was a puzzle

And I was trying so hard to fit the last piece in

I just had to find it

But with you it’s like the missing piece

Was in my pocket all along

And I reached in to find it one day, surprised

But then I know I cant disguise

All these emotions that arise

I’d been trying to find the words

Yet they are permanently on the tip of my tongue...

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

A deeply emotional piece. The tone is one of relief at having seemingly found someone with whom one might spend life. This is a sprawling free verse which might benefit from culling many words and yet still impart the same message. There are many gems, my favourite being "But with you it’s like the missing piece
Was in my pocket all along."