Stronger

what if we never had English together

and you never got seated next to me

what if I never wrote with sharpie on your arm

or forced you to climb up that tree

I would have never loved so hard

that the world itself seemed to fade away

yet my heart would still be strung together

rather than it's current state of disarray

what if you never asked me to love you

and I didn't willfully comply

would I now know what it is to trust someone

instead of to always assume they lie

I would never have hated so much

that it consumed me for so long

yet not knowing you would mean not knowing me

and how the hurt has made me strong