Unconditional

Maybe this could work after all,
To really love without expecting to be loved back
To cheer backstage and congratulate and be proud of you
Even though at the end of the day, my sole opinion would not matter much

Maybe watching you succeed, be the man that you could be
Is enough
Maybe I didn't have to be the girl you would want to tell your successes to

Maybe it's okay to not be the one and only.
When everybody cherishes you, I would just like be everybody
Only that my joy for you is much more intense, greater, stronger, more powerful
than anyone. But you wouldn't take a second look at it

Maybe wishing you would love me back is not necessary
Maybe I could love you so much without you loving me anyway

Maybe it's okay for you to be the best I never had
Instead of denying your worth that has become so much to me

Maybe instead of bringing down your statue that I have come to admire so much
Then have kept on the attic, to dust, to rot
Although deep inside I know that it could gather all the dust but it would still be glorious.
Maybe it is okay to display you. Admire your beauty and form
Instead of denying it at all

What if you are more beautiful than anything I will ever see?
Would it be okay if you were not mine, despite that?

I could imagine us together forever
Growing old, holding graying hands
Or forever young and adventurous, going on wild places
Conquering battles and conquering tears
As long as we're together

I tried imagining life without you
But it all ended up at the denial bin.
Life without you is like having my soul haunted by a ghost
Like a life scarred beautifully by an event I don't remember but I will never forget
Something will always be missing without you

I wanted so much to be a part of you
A part of your world
Be it a cold, dull one or a blooming, vivid one
I'd take it all
Whether or not you would like me to be a part of yours