Reaching For You

Closer and closer I walk to you

Just happy to be in your presence

I learn

I help

I laugh

I listen

I do everything I can to make you happy

Because that is all that I am willing to achieve

 

Closer and closer I crawl to you

My head is heavy, My body bruised

But it doesn't matter

As long as I can see you smile

As long as I can know that it's because of me

The soaring of my heart numbs the pain

 

Closer and closer I reach to you

So close I can feel the burn

I am closer than I ever hoped to be

But still, I reach

Ignoring the decayed parts of me

that I have neglected in favor of you

 

And then you're gone

Moved on

Because you've found someone

worth reaching for

And

I'm

Not 

 

And I never will be

But, 

I knew that from the beginning

and still

I reach

This poem is about: 
Me

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