This Is All I Ask

Pull me in.

Keep me warm.

Keep me safe.

Give me strength.

Show me my confidence.

Tie up loose ends.

Say I'm it.

Feel my pain.

Share my joy.

Allow me to be on my own,

but to be complete only with you.

Wash me clean of judgments, underestimations.

Drive with me to the edge of the world.

Stop at the bay.

A kiss so sweet I feel spoiled.

But still you tell me

you can never give me enough.

Forbid me from putting my hair up around you.

Dance with me

in my basement

without music - during commercial breaks.

Read my poetry.

Write your own, but not because I told you to.

Let me hear your voice.

Listen to me.

Give my beliefs a try.

Decide in a heartbeat to be with me,

then take ages going slow with me.

Enjoy the simplicity in my love for you.

It's so awestrikingly complicated,

because it's inexplicable.

So it just is. Accept and believe that.

Talk with me for hours.

Spill things you didn't know you kept.

Care for me.

Tell me when I'm wrong,

and don't give up until I'm doing right.

Meet my friends and family.

Understand, through them, how I love.

Invest.

Make sacrifices.

Expect me to do the same,

and remember always that I do.

Let some things remain understood - unspoken.

Don't let others go unsaid.

Know that you were on my mind

while I wrote this.

Protect me.

Enable me.

But above all, I'm telling you to love me.

Beyond the word.

Beyond the songs, the letters, the poems, the oaths...

Love me because your heart needs to, to beat.

Because it's innate - not learned or forced.

Love me.

Above all: Love me.