18 Forever

Subject: 18 Forever Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:27 am

This is something I wrote when I was 18 and stupidly in love.

Quote :: Eighteen Forever

If I could stay eighteen forever, I’d tell you the truth.

If I could stay eighteen forever, I’d know there was no way to lose you.

If I could stay eighteen forever, I’d promise you the world and provide it too.

If I could stay eighteen forever, I’d wish you could too.

If we were eighteen forever, there’d be no need to fight, no need to worry.

If we were eighteen forever, I’d want to know you were mine for just as long.

I’d want everyday to be like today, lying in bed until noon, not a care in the world.

I’d be able to shake you awake at way too early just for you to hold my hand and see the sunrise only to pass out on my lap a few minutes later.

I’d want to be contradicted by you every day, just so I could confuse you with quadruple entendres.

I’d want to be able to fall asleep while you play piano and wake up to the sound of you breathing deeply, serenely, next to me.

If I could stay eighteen forever, it would mean nothing to anyone but us.

I wouldn’t care if you were nineteen forever, as long as I was only eighteen.

I wouldn’t have to think about how to celebrate your twentieth birthday, knowing we’d never plan mine.

If I could stay eighteen forever, we’d have nothing to worry about.

You could say 1.7725 as many times as you liked and each time, I would reply 1.772453850905516027298167483314.

The outside world could change all it wants, but we’ll be eighteen forever.

I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and look at you and I’ll remember I want to be eighteen forever so we can be like this forever.