I Want You

I want you.

I want you
emotionally
intellectually
physically.
I want you
in all the romantic ways
the excruciatingly painful ones,
and in every possible way out there
that I know and don’t know of.

I want you mine.
I want to wake up to you by my side,
I want to be the one you run to from the world and hide,
I want to dive deep into you,
drown
and never be rescued.

I want you to know
that I’m here for as long as you want me to stay,
that I’m more than enough,
that I could be the best thing that has ever happened to you if you let me be,
that I’m worth the risk,
worth the wait
and even worth the pain.

I want you
to stop fighting
to surrender
and realize that

you want me
just as much
just as painfully.

—Nada Shahin