The Whole Me

I didn't look for you because I was broken
There was no hole shaped like you
I found you because I finally
Learned to be with myself
And that changed everything

Love that waits for someone incomplete
Can't bear the weight of reality
Because reality doesn't fit
In someone who hasn't found themselves yet

Love isn't an anchor
It isn't one half searching for the other half
It's two whole people who choose
To share the same ground
Without losing their identity
The brain learns to desire through chemistry
But the choice to stay that has no formula
It's born every morning
When you could walk away
But choose to stay

I don't love you because I need to
I love you because I choose to
And choosing every day
Is the only love I know

The whole me!
Not broken
Not lost
Here

To love as a chosen destiny
Not as an escape
Not out of fear of being alone

The whole me!

And when it hurts
It hurts because it's real
Because it touched what no one
Had touched before

I'm not afraid of this pain
It's proof
That I didn't make up
What we feel

All of me
Not broken
Here