Come To Stay Poem by Riley Choma

I have tried to feel things in a casual way, I really have.

However, the harder I try, the more I'm realizing that...

Feelings just aren't a casual thing- not a come and go sort of thing.

Not for me...

For me, feelings are more of a come to stay and never go away thing.

I never use to think it was a high expectation- to expect someone would one day have 'come to stay' sort of feelings for me.

Though, I suppose I never expected anyone would have feelings for me at all.

But if they did, I always thought it would be mad love or mad hate.

I never predicted all of these shades of gray, but oh well...

I see it now.

Now I'm seeing that maybe it is a high expectation- because these days everything is so temporary.

But that doesn't mean I want it any less- someone that wants me and never stops.

I want someone that comes, comes to stay and never goes away.