The One Who Built Me Up

Your words
spoken softly
touched my heart so tenderly.

The humanity
you infused
entered my soul so gingerly.

Where have you been?
My entire life I was waiting
Torn down, through scorn,
you're the one who built me up.

The chance
I offered
You jumped at without pause.

My tears
now gone,
finally forgiven for all my flaws.

Where have you been?
The entire time when I was lonely,
it never matters in the end.
You're the one who built me up.

You picked up my pieces,
a puzzle that you solved from scratch.
Unlike those who stare and pass
you saved me from being scrapped.

Not a puppet on a string
or a lonely toy rotting on a shelf.
You made me into everything
when I could have been nothing else.

So where have you been?
And now that you're here
I can let my emotions flow.
You're the one who built me up
and I'll be damned if I let go.