Letter to A Boy

I was a delinquent with the pen.
My words were graffiti on each page
pouring out the heart of every piece of evil.
I skipped town in my mind and
abandoned each piece of my heart.
Or maybe, I guess I didn't.
I think I found a little piece, and who knew
a heart can grow back together?
When I was little I wrote to
a man I'd one day meet.
And I told him I'd love him forever
even though we'd never met.
Pouring my heart out over pages,
I dreamed he'd sweep me off my feet.
You swept me off my feet,
coming in like a hurricane of color
that painted all the pieces of my gray world.
One smile can bring me to my knees
even if I don't show it.
Each night my hands rest on the keys
and I try so hard to write a song for you.
But your life is more beautiful to me
than any melody.
It's not something we can put into words.
Love is stronger than a song.
All I know is that I love, and I'll love you forever.
This heart here, however broken once,
has always bent at the seams with love.
I love too much. I love too strongly.
I've loved too little...
But now, now it's all going to be okay.
The sun rises and sets with each new day
and I have a heart to call my own.
I have a hand that I can hold.
I have love that will never go...
You are that star I stared at from my window
wishing you would find me, promising I would wait,
even if it took forever.
My heart has always belonged to you
I just didn't know the name to the face.
But you walked right in
just as I was stumbling
and you caught me effortlessly before I fell.
Charmed by love, I am swept away now.
Keep me floating on this dream.
I am living in my freedom.
The freedom that I longed for was never to be given
but it was inside me
only to be unlocked
the moment I found you.
Love.