Young Love

The innocence of having your heart stolen.

I really do miss that young love
Not the love that you think you have 
For someone that you have sex with all the time
But the love that makes you contemplate everything in existence
The moment you lock eyes with the most beautiful girl you've ever seen. 
Where you meet someone for the first time
And it knocks you down. Hard. 
You cannot breathe, you cannot speak
You can barely even move. 
Just staring into their eyes
Gets you so lost that it takes a minute and thirty-two seconds
For you to find your way back to reality
And by that time, she's gotten lost in your eyes also
And she can't move. 
And you're both coughing up so many butterflies
That you can't tell each other how you really feel,
Or explain what just happened. 
So you wait to see her again
And you keep love letter after love letter
Hidden under your bed
As you write more and more to her
Attempting to find words to express the way she makes you feel
But it just doesn't happen
Then you finally meet again
There are no words
Just the blissful sound of birds and a cool breeze rustling the leaves of a tree
And you want to walk up to her and wrap your arms around her
But she's so beautiful that it would be a sin to be anything but reverent 
So you admire the way the leaves fall around her 
And you begin to choke when you see her blush
You go to her softly, and you stare into those eyes that make the world spin around
You're cursing your tongue for failing to make words
But just when you nearly fall to pieces
She closes the distance
And not a thing in the world can come between you
And you wrap her into the warmest embrace
That even the sun would admire
Time stops
The world seems so far away that you wonder 
If you died and went to Heaven in those two minutes
But then the wind begins to blow once more
And the birds return to their calming dirge
And in the ten seconds that it takes to notice that you are not dead,
That this is as close to Heaven on Earth as you'd ever known,
Her lips touch yours the way you'd always imagined they would
But yet it's nothing like you'd ever expected
And you know that if you really did die in that moment
You would gladly do it over and over again
If anything, just to clarify that it really did happen
That you're first kiss was with the one 
That you spent every night of Summer dreaming about
Dreaming that you would find her underneath that tall oak tree
Clothed in the leaves that are so captured by her beauty
That they fall down to her feet
And you're both the happiest you've ever been
Just seeing the sparkle in her eyes
And knowing that you, one in seven billion people in the world,
Are the one who put it there. 
It's the greatest feeling in the world
To love someone who loves you
And have it be more than enough to keep you smiling
And let it be all that you ever need