The Place Holder

You saw something in me,

what, I am not sure---

Something in me,

to cause you this kind of uncertainty,

And that something,

in my stupor,

in my ranting full of the side effects of these libations,

made me finally believe in myself,

and not in us,

and not in what we used to be,

because we were nothing,

until you were something magnificent

and I was pedestrian, in your opinion,

I misunderstood something for nearly 2200 days,

and I was none the wiser for having done so,

in fact,

I was unrecognizable,

infantile, even---

but something,

nonetheless----