My Favorite Kind of Love
Is the kind the love you feel
When you know you’d do anything for that person
And you’re okay with them never finding out
My Favorite Kind of Love
Isn’t always romantic
It was once a long time ago
But most of the time it’s for people who don’t feel like anyone sees them
My greatest act of love is to notice
My Favorite Kind of Love
Is for the 3 year old who collapsed into my arms
Bawling her eyes out because I told her she’s not in trouble
Her little head limp on my shoulder, distraught over her fear of being punished
I showed her I loved her by the way I hugged her tightly back
Laying my head on top of hers
“I know how you feel sweet girl”
My Favorite Kind of Love
Is for the girls I babysat for 3 summers straight
When we drove with all the windows down, hands out in the salty summer air
The oldest one was the age right before I was when my life started to crash and burn
They both wished to be me and I wished to be them
But just being able to witness how blissfully they were experiencing life in that moment
As we waved our hands out the window listening to Taylor Swift
Made me realize that we were all playing with the same air
My Favorite Kind of Love
Is for the girl I’m friends with through a mutual
That I can tell doesn’t think she deserves more than what she accepts
Even though what I see is such a beautiful soul
Who has more people admiring her from afar than she thinks
She simultaneously makes a whole room laugh yet makes everyone feel seen
Something everyone loves to see in another person
My Favorite Kind of Love
Is for the struggling 14 year old
That has everyone seeing her but not understanding her
Because at the end of the day, they aren’t her, and they never will be
But she doesn’t know that I enjoy talking to her the most,
Because even when all she does is cuss and yell
I know what it’s like be that frustrated over the things you can’t control
My Favorite Kind of Love
Is for the girls that I watch from afar
Noticing the emotion behind their eyes that no one else sees
It's a look you can only recognize if you have been there once before too
So although there's nothing I can do to help, or even confirm that what I’m noticing is true
I still see them when I don’t think they even notice themselves
My Favorite Kind of Love
Is for the girl I see in the mirror
That would rather be average after working her ass off
Than be someone at the top who didn’t have to try at all
Because she knows that failure isn’t really failure
If all it does is make your successes feel more rewarding, no matter how small
And boy has she had a lot of failures
My Favorite Kind of Love
Is for the boy who has been there for ages
Whether he’s in my life or he’s watching from afar
He was always watching, noticing
And he still does
He still sees me when I don’t even see myself
Because he loves me