Stay With Me

Stay With Me

By Keith Kareem Williams

I know that I’m a headache, and I’m way more complicated than you could have ever imagined but still, I’m asking you to stay with me. I know that every ounce of logic is screaming that you should walk away but still, I’m going to ask you to stay. I know that I’m being selfish but I swear that my selfishness in wanting to keep you close to me will make us both happy. For every tear you’ve shed because of me, I promise you a thousand smiles, a thousand times I’ll make you blush, and I’ll make sure that the butterflies in your stomach never go away if you would just stay. I know that I’m absolutely, completely, insane but you are the only one who understands my madness and still loves me in spite of my eccentricities. You’re the only one who can survive inside my "crazy" because you’re just as strange as me. Our situation is like a knife but I promise that if you stay, I’ll let you hold the handle while I grip the blade, because I trust you. No one else has ever truly made you happy and it’s exactly the same for me so, please…stay with me. I disappear sometimes because my life sometimes gets in the way but loving you is easy. In life, there are no guarantees but, stay with me so we can see what we might just be…something that lasts until we draw our last breaths. I know that I’m asking a lot but anything worthwhile is always worth taking the chance, no matter how great the risk may be and as you read this, I know that your heart agrees that you should stay with me. With all of me mixed with all of you, there’s almost nothing we can’t do. This isn’t just love to me. It’s something that was meant to be.