I figure by not using names you can imagine which ever as either character. I personally wrote this from Dave’s point of view but you’re welcome to interpret it however you’d like.
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Gravity
Sometimes you feel like you’re going to float away. Disappear among the clouds, live among the stars and drift until you die. The feeling churns in the pit of your stomach and leaves you gripping the object closest to you until your knuckles turn white and you feel grounded again. It comes and goes. Maybe twice a week, sometimes less. But one things that never changes is the sick feeling and dizziness it leaves behind. You don’t know what causes and you’re starting to believe that it will never go away. You’ll be stuck this way until the day you die. And then you meet him.
Suddenly your feet feel planted to the ground and the light as air feeling comes less often. When you start to get that goofy look on your face that only you know is because of it, he grabs your and banishes it away to the very back of your mind. If he doesn’t notice all you have to do it hug him or sometimes even look at him and you know that you’ll be ok. You’re stuck down here on Earth with him and it’s the greatest feeling. As long as he’s by your side you won’t float away.
When you’re feeling bad he pulls you close, rests your head on his chest and sings until you feel whole again. He’s not very good. His voice is goofy and cracks on some words but that’s part of his charm. Eventually you feel the smile tug at your cheeks until you’re both laughing, then kissing, then merging into one.
Sometimes you’ll order take out, lay on the couch and binge watch a TV series you’ve both seen a hundred times. It’s just the two of you and it’s so perfect you want the moments to last forever. You never feel more grounded than in those moments. Slowly he became your everything and the fear of losing him terrifies you. Until you’re lying awake at night, watching him sleep and dreaming about what your life would be like without him. Would you float away? Would you even care if he wasn’t there beside you otherwise?
Then he wakes up and he smiles and gets flustered because he knows you’ve been watching him and it melts your heart. You forget everything that you were just worrying about and all you see is him. All you feel is him curling up beside you, warm and solid. Soon you’re drifting off to sleep with him in your arms.
Before him you didn’t have anything holding you down. A balloon loosely tied to the back of a chair, one wrong move sending you spiraling into the sky. But he brought so many new things into your life. Love, laughter, yearning, heartache and most importantly, gravity.
