To My First Crush

There are too many jokes and inside things that we shared

To write them in rhyme, but the memory's still there.

Even if someday when visions begin to blur,

If you don't remember my name but just as a "her",

If you don't remember the names that we invented in those years,

Remember what was in our eyes when we fought back our tears:

Reflections of our own darkness as clear as the day,

Know I still hold to that growth, supporting growth in other ways.

All the ways we helped not just accept who we are 

But all we can be to know we can make it that far.

Though the future was uncertain our time together's written in stone,

All of our light and our darkness, we didn't have to go it alone.

Perfect enough to have no regrets, instead feel joy,

A perfect friendship while you were more than "just a boy".

Imperfect enough to not regret what could have been,

Glad for what we never lost, and for the friendship that we win.