Morning Thoughts

It was never me
A boy, an athlete, an avid reader
That's what they didn't see
Thinking love was what they would feel
They never heard the me within
The human behind the stolen smile
I was a pool of calm water to fill their holes
As I drained through the places they were broken
What they were blind to drained away too
Each time I poured all I was upon their pain
It became an expectation
I was an image
Sometimes to elevate them
Someone to analyze, to educate them
I was but human, a broken boy
As the parade of needs mistaken for love marched on
I went from ignored
To disdained
A stain formed on my soul
It grew deeper as I grew older
With time the patterns were redundant
And all quite clear...
And now here
You are
I see my soul in your eyes
I wear no disguise
It is me
You see
The loving soul
Not the role
Once broken now
Whole
I Know it's me
That you love