I love the memory of the person that you
used to be.
I love that you allowed me to feel
the love that my heart can
contain.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

I used to love you
I still do
So Selfish
I love the old you
The you that didnt shoot drugs
...The you that didnt get beat on by men
You laugh in my face and call me a fool
But its true
I still love you
Sometimes,I can see the old you
When your eyes flash
When you almost look alive

This is a story of what I was, not what I am.

With me you could have been another person.

You never knew what I loved in you,
I don't know what you loved in me.
Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

Well now," he said, "was I as good as you were when you were me?

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

No, it is not you I love so ardently, The glitter of your beauty is not for me: I love in you my past suffering And my perished youth.

"Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same."

The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday — oh