To the Girl I Will One Day Marry
Hi My name is Chris And I've been looking for you Under park benches and tables In every aisle of the grocery store And sometimes In my own backyard I'm not very good at this But really I've been looking for you In the morning sunrise In the glow of the moon and stars And everywhere in between I've only dated once or twice And I've always been told not to worry That there are plenty of fish in the sea But the thought of that terrifies me Because what if What if I can't find you And I've always been told that it's not the end of the world But But what if it is And what if tomorrow is my last And what if I never get the chance to hold your hand And what if I never get the chance to tell you that the way you stand in a room Makes the sunlight a mere shadow And what if nobody ever reads this letter and what if you're reading this already And what if I told you That I'm sitting in my room Listening to Let's Get It On And I'm staring blankly at my textbook Wondering what college would be like If we still had recess and naptime If instead we were graded on what we thought we knew If class didn't start until the sun went down Just so we could study the stars And to ace my final All I would have to do Is write about you You see I've been looking for you In the middle of stand-still traffic In between the pages of every empty photo album In the still and silence of the night air And sometimes I fold my poems into paper airplanes Throw them into the breeze Hoping that the wind will fly them to your doorstep Just to let you know That I Am thinking of you always Because I've been looking for you On the corners of empty streets In the dry of the pouring rain And I've only ever loved once or twice Loved the way that I Should have only been saving for you And I'm sorry Because I've been looking for you At the bottom of every shot glass In between the lips of so many different girls And if I could take it all back Just so I could give you every piece of me That I've lost along the way I would And if I could promise you That you are the only one I will ever call mine I would I would But I can't So just know That when I finally find you With all that I have left I will love you the way a star is blanketed by the night sky Endlessly That I have stained ink into every touch of my fingertips So that when I finally trace them along your skin I will tattoo every part of my soul onto yours I want you to whisper to me the rhythms of all your secrets To feel the curves of your lips pressed fully against mine I want your hair to fall over my face Like curtains draping a room A room meant only for us And in those moments I will never, ever let you go Because I want And I need All of you So completely That I can barely restrain my entire being From running into the streets Asking every girl that I see If she is the one If she will watch my hair fade to gray Under the sun and stars of a million days and nights And if she really is the love of my life Why has it taken me so long Just to see her face If only for a moment If only for a precious while And I wrote this for you Before I even knew your name Just to let you know That for twenty broken years I Have missed you Signed Dreaming of you always Love, Me










