Someone Like You

It took someone like you to make me so vulnerable. That's all I feel these days...vulnerability.  Like all of this magic could disappear someday, and I've never been so desperate for something not to happen in my whole life.

It took someone like you to change the way that I see the world...to look past the bad and strain my eyes for the good...because all I ever want for you is the good.

It took someone like you to help me see your Mom for who she really is.  I used to think that she was June, and then I thought that she was my wife, and now she's your Mom, and that's something I never fathomed being so complex and omniscient...so completely overwhelming.

It took someone like you to put myself in perspective.  I've never felt so small, and yet so big.

It took someone like you to steer me through this silly obsessive something that I've found myself oh-so committed to for nearly five years.  I've never done anything, besides love your Mom, longer that I've written things here.

It took someone like you to help me realize what I was capable of... how good I could be at something everyone said it would be so hard to be good at.

It took someone like you to help me realize how important it is to remember being small.

It took someone like you to fill me with so much hope.

It took someone like you to make me wish that all of the hardships were mine, not yours.

It took someone like you to help me see my own parents for who they really are and what they really did.

It took someone like you to make me never, ever want to leave this place as long as you're here.

It took someone like you to make someone like me, and I know that I couldn't have done it on my own.