I.
Something about the highway always feels
like coming home and
the only other place I've felt like this
is my grandma's house
and your arms

There's this inherent comfort in running away and
you're the only person who's tamed that urge
the one to disappear
and I've always wanted to be forgotten
but I find myself smiling
every time you remember me

My nightmares follow me
everywhere besides the road
and there's something about the highway
that draws me into it's arms
and the only place I've slept better
than on the road is in your arms
that is, I fall asleep in a record 5 minutes
on the road, that is, I broke that record in your bed

II.
I read once that when you are truly in love
they are the light by which you see the world
that is, everything is more beautiful because of them, that is, nothing is as beautiful without them

You bring color to the world.

I always believed that I could leave anyone
that I loved, that cutting ties was easy
because the highway feels more like home than they
do, but cutting ties with you is more like slicing
through arteries and my pulmonary can't
take that kind of damage

My dad always says that
when you're in a relationship
you have to make them your first priority
and I thought that'd be hard until I met you
but everything I do I do for you first
automatically

I've read the line
he is more myself than I am
so many times but it feels more like
I am more filled with him than I'm filled with myself,
that is, he has given me his whole self and
I have given him all of myself to him

Someone I used to know said
they wished they could see the world
through my eyes
but when you die I hope you're an organ donor
so someone else can see the world the way you do,
there's something special in the way
you look at things
it's different from anyone I've ever met
before

III.
That is, I love you too stupid