Say You Love Me
April 24, 2023
Author: Caroline Tully
Editor: Maddie Canter & Maureen Diehl
“Who in the group would most likely marry for money?”
It was unanimous: me.
What should’ve offended me rang true
I have enough
I have enough love in my life
It’s everywhere
It’s in the hours of conversation with my mom on the phone
It’s in the weekend trip to New York with my best friend
It’s in the walk home from a night out and stopping at NYPD for a slice of the mac and cheese pizza
It’s in the laughs with my friends in clinicals
It’s in the hugs with my roommate after a hard day
What a scary thing? To be so in love
To be so in love with this world that promises us nothing
No promise of tomorrow
No promise of consistency
No promise of the fair thing, the good thing, the right thing
“And I’m the kind of person
Who starts getting kind of nervous
When I’m having the time of my life”
I sit and stare at the clock and wait for my hour to come
For the storm to roll in
It’s happened before
It’ll happen again
But it’s inevitable, you see?
So why live in fear?
A question of when doesn’t make it any easier
All we can do is take shelter out in the open
With the things that keep us grounded
The love letter from your dearest friend
That moment when sun that casts its beams on my face and your first instinct is to put on sunglasses but you embrace it for just a little bit
“Say You Love Me” by Fleetwood Mac coming up on shuffle
The perfect over easy egg on toast
Your dad’s sweater that you slip on when your homesick
Let the world’s atrocities come beating down like pellets of rain
Let them hit our face and trickle down our necks
Soak into our hair, dampen our clothes
Because the warmth of this love
Whether complex or simple
Will dry it up to nothingness
It’s horrific to think that this is it
This is the life we’re meant to live
And there’s nothing we can do to change it
It’s beautiful to think that this is it
This is the life we’re meant to live
And there’s nothing we can do to change it
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