so i was cleaning out my drawers and i found an old poem i wrote like sophomore or freshman year of high school. reading it again made me realize just how idealistic i was, how much i believed that love existed for me back then, and the extent of which i was horribly in love with a boy that never looked my way.

you brought light into my life and sheltered me from the rain.
your smile gives me warmth, strength for me to go on.
without you, i know i couldn't live
not a life without your smile,
those eyes that dance with the stars
and the touch that aroused -
all my love inside my deep heart.

it's so corny i can laugh for hours. but hey, i must have cried buckets of tears while i wrote that.