Because of you

I've been so afraid at times thinking that I might how to stop loving you, yet I've never said it. I've been mortified at the idea of not wanting to be with the person you have become but yet I have never left.

I wanted to scream just the other day, I wanted to tell everyone how great I can be to you, but yet I didn't let anyone hear. I long for you to tell me that living without me is like living without a soul but yet I never beg for such satisfaction.

I've been so afraid of changing but yet I have lived my life through a metamorphosis. Yes, yet I have changed. Because of you I now know how someone can fall in and out of love in a split second, because of you I have learned to grip the emotion and expect change before it comes.

Yes because of you I have learned to love unconditionally with your conditions. You have turned me into a woman, you have turned me into your woman. Now I stand before you, a grown woman by the hands of your time.

Because of you I have come to understand that being pure isn't just being clean, being pure is being true - I thank you.

Because of you I have learned to understand my beauty rather than appreciate it, I commend you.

I know because of you I have learned to keep my feet of the ground, groove to the sound of my emotions and decide on the feelings of my intuition.

Because of you I have learned to love another imperfect human being perfectly in my imperfect way.