by Ned Taufik
And then I wonder about us, about you and me
About our love, about our relationship
My life, my forever
How do I know if you’re happy
How do I know if you’re escaping
How do I know if I make you want to
How do I know if you know that I want you to
Because the door is open
Because you’re still here
Because I’m sick and because you’re kind
Because you want me and because I want you
But how if the world doesn’t want me
But how if I don’t want the world to want me
And I go as far as to say you’re that world
As you’re not out there but you’re in here
And you’re the most alive thing in me as of right now
And as everything fails with me, I want you to succeed
I want to look at you with pride from the sky
I want you to learn life from a being so dead that is me
I want you to take everything I own
Everything I’ll ever have that is you
And bring her to there where I’ve always wanted
To be up there on the hills on our farm overlooking the tiny world
If I were to be gone, I want you to live and live harder than ever for me in my spirit
Because I was once you until life defeated me
Until my sickness got the best of me
But still then, I would love to see you beat me
Because my love is so big, the world can’t take it
And it blinds me which then kills me
But you’re the love I manifested
You’re the life I wanted to have
My love, my only one
Live, hard
Love, deep
For me, yours only
© Ned Taufik 2024-01-31