Lessons Learned

“I had lost sight of how many boys’ lips I had tasted, their kisses all a mixed blur of people I didn’t care about enough to remember.

They were stepping stones.

And maybe, in those moments that they were around, I did truly care about them. Perhaps I even loved one of them.

But you were the one that lit a fire inside me.

You were magnetic, effortlessly pulling me to you. I drowned myself in the comfort of your brown eyes that always seemed to be searching for a new adventure and made a home in your arms that you swore had never known love until you met me.

But you were young and reckless. You couldn’t understand the weight your broken promises had left me with because you were out restlessly searching for yourself in this world.

You were a child and you just weren’t ready for the depth of the love I had to give.

Because I did love you. God, did I love you