The Women I've Known

If you could have known the women I've loved, and felt the way they loved you like they loved me, you would have fallen in love with them too.

If you could have seen the way they smiled at you, the difference you made in their lives and the difference they made in yours, the way they made you feel, you would have sworn your life to them and never wanted to leave.

In the end, when it all became too big and scary and they left, you would have felt the hole they left in your life. In your heart. Because they never saw themselves the way you saw them. Or maybe they did, but convinced themselves that they couldn't believe it could ever be true.

And maybe you couldn't see yourself the way they did either, and if so, why would they believe it when you told them?

So whether they failed you or you failed them, and your heart broke so hard you thought you wouldn't make it, you would still find it in you to smile.

Because you would have fallen in love with them too.