you stand still in the kitchen. you pick your nails still, even though you know it’s a bad habit.

pay attention!!

i like how you look standing there, so i take pictures of you in this light. notice how the shadows do not hit you. everything moves to glow around your silhouette.

cherish this!!

i hold onto something, until i do not know what that something is and i’m scared again. i pray so much my knees hurt. forget it. forget how i am always the one begging for more, yet always the one to leave.

you’ll miss this when it’s gone!!

instead, i’ll remember us like this. staring at each other until one of us looks away, my eyes hurting from not blinking, not wanting to miss a second of you.

don’t take this for granted!!

so i’ll choose to remember us like this. every time.