Vain for You

These insecurities eat me inside

I forgot to breathe ten minutes ago

You move closer, I get a contact high

I’m elated, I’m scared, I don’t know

I open and hastily shut my mouth

I wish I could say so much more

But I’m deathly afraid of what might come out

My feelings would flood the whole floor

You’d get soaked with my words and my

Thoughts would wrap around you like a vine

I’d explain if I could but this kind of

Devotion defies all reason and rhyme

These insecurities are still biting

I don’t think I’ve inhaled once up ‘til now

I could tell you my feelings in writing

But I prefer to just stare and think “wow”

I know my cheeks are burning

But I look you square in the eye

Even though my stomach is churning

And I’m so scared I might die

I finally exhale and the butterflies

Leave my stomach and fill up the room

And I wonder why it took me so long to say

I’m insanely vain for you