I showed them who I was and nobody asked me to apologize for it-
It made them love me more.
I was dancing around the fire in a re-enactment of The Proposal-
Shaking my butt in your direction until everyone was laughing,
I’d never felt more at home with anyone’s family than I do with yours.
And your sister and I had hit it off at your grandparents;
So we spent the evening diving into deep conversations-
Dancing paired with responsibilities that I was too young to handle,
A father I only got to know for six years as an adult and abusive exes who can’t let go.
Everything was laid out on the table just for her to tell me she liked me more.
“You know things.” She’d said-
And an unspoken conversation happened between us that changed something inside of me.
At the end of the night you told me you could have a ring in two weeks;
I agreed to a spring timeline while I tried to calculate how fast it would take me to say yes the second you’re on your knee anyways because-
I showed them who I was and nobody asked me to apologize for it.
Like you,
It made them love me more.
