Reasons to Stay

Some say you aren't supposed to fall in love with people like me. We're out of control, always needed a little extra help because we're too broken to help ourselves. Sometimes, we can't decide, but others, we demand things at once. We say words that don't make sense. Like 'there's a ghost in my room' or 'a lizard fell out the sky.' Our emotions are so jumbled and mixed up; it's hard to tell how we feel. We do the stupidest, most reckless things that you could never wrap your mind around. We depend on you way too much; there always seems to be something wrong. We want the dumbest items that seem like a waste to buy. Sometimes, we want all the attention, but two seconds later, we want to curl up and be left alone. 

     But I say you should love me because I'll love you back with all my heart. I'll be honest about myself, and never keep things in the shadows. My emotions are all mixed up because the way you look at me keeps me from thinking straight. The only reason I seem so broken is that I try so hard to look perfect to you. I can never decide because I worry if you'll judge my decision. I want the strangest things because I see something good in the most pathetic stuff. I say the craziest things because my imagination goes far more than the rest. 

     I may not be the angel you imagined. I might not look as cute as some people on Instagram, I may not have the sanest brain, I might do things that you can't understand, but my heart stays open, and it'll search forever until it finds you.