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When did love become so god damned fragile... I had always believed the heart to be hollow. Empty and void. But I have found that recently words can shatter it so easily and that they have been so fucking impossible to understand. They say I'll be fragile for having these feelings... that I'll bend under the pressure of it all and it will break us in the end. But I try not to be. I'm searching for something that no one can see and only a select few have found. Something so rare in this hell we live in. I have my own life and I'm stronger than they know.
But I carry this feeling with me where ever I go. This memory of you walking into my front door for the first time to meet my brother. That feeling that I never wanted you to walk out my door... I never had a name for it then. I may not have one for it now with the way the world has changed around us. But I know I never want you to walk out my door again.
Because we are what they call lovers in this moment, aren't we darling? Standing here in the court yard face to face. Holding hands and sharing vows with no rings to exchange. But none of that matters to me. Because, you are my city lights and I am your free roaming mountains. And all I ask is that you stay with me. Stay.
I remember you in the bright moonlight. Your sleepy eyes staring at the clouds covering the sky through the branches. How beautiful you looked. I had wondered if you would ever love a man like me. Because sometimes I am a strong man. Sometimes I am cold, I become scared, with nightmares, and sometimes I cry. But I knew when you walked into my house I never wanted you to leave.
But that time I saw you walking across the courtyard from me, baby. I knew that you would be there to light up my nights and that somehow throughout this hell we were both subject too, we would get by. No that was a lie... It was from the first time that I saw you. Standing in the hallway of the little school we used to go to. I knew then that you would light up my life and somehow I would get by.
Baby as we stand here in the courtyard, face to face... I need you to love me. I need you to today. I'll give you my leather, darling. And from you my love I'll take your lace.