I wish to be the stars you seek out,
The dreams you wish
And the hopes you gather under your
Eyelids as you pray.
I want to be the ambitions inside you
And the nothing you've left behind
Because at least then, I'm still
Something that belongs to you.
I need to be everything around you.
The pillow under you head
The covers over your legs
Because I know you can't sleep with them
Covering you fully.
I'm left to only be with you.
Maybe that's good enough
And maybe I'm just selfish
Because I want to be more.
Because you see, you are the light that
Stretches over my lips first thing in the morning.
The air that scatters across my face
In this Charleston heat.
You are the gentle wave of the ocean
At noon and how you can't go too far
Without seeing a palmtree.
You are the multicolored houses
And the technicolored dreams people left behind.
You are the lessons I should be learning and
The truths I've already lost.
You are the love I wish to give
But I've always been too careless to have.
You make up everything I love here
And the people I love back there.
And I guess you don't get it,
So I'll make it clear.
You are It. You are everything.
Anything and every little thing that belongs to me.
The things that make up my heart
And the person I want to be.
You are love
And you are,
Happiness.