You make me feel

You make me feel like
A kid in the candy store tasting candy for the first time
Forgetting that candy can make the teeth hurt
Forgetting everything
But the joy of overdosing on refined sugar

You make me feel like
A child, cuddled in his mothers lap
Feeling secure
Like nothing could ever get him from here
No monsters
Could snatch him away.

You make me feel like
The adolescent kid
With scrawny gait and an awkward smile
Reading poetry to his friends for the first time
Waiting for some applause
Some appreciation
And then getting it

You make me feel like a pipe line
Gushing with oil under the sea
Thousands and thousands of feet long
Surrounded by ice cold water
But feeling on the inside, so warm

You make me feel like
Bethoween's unfinished melody
The hope of a perfect symphony
The first time a sailor sees land
And he just can not understand
Why he feels so good

You make me feel like
The feeling i get when i smell fresh warm bread
Or when i see the first sunrise in spring
A beautiful flower raising its head from concrete
You make me feel so complete

You make me feel like
I am going to be ok
Like there is a purpose to being
That i actually matter to the universe
That someone really loves me
And that makes everything ok

I guess what i am trying to say
Is that you actually make me feel
Stir up some emotions
In my heart
The ones i hid in the dark
so that no one could ever see

When i built my hard shell around me
Eliminating from sight all sighs of vulnerablity
When i pretended to be perfect
So that no one could ever enter
No one could hurt me...

You made me feel
Feel as broken as a cracked record
Like a mussel pulled out of its shell
So soft, so tender, so afraid
And yet, so alive
You make me feel like
Like Love is true
And so are you
There is no more need to sing the blues
That there is hope