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Uplifted. Feb 27, 2002 at 01:56 am

 
 
You Move Me - Jen Cohen
 
 

Walter, you don't want to read this. Just a warning. You may if you like.

Here's how life seems to me,
Life is like therapy,
It's real expensive with no guarantee.
What a great line!
As I lay on the couch,
with my heart hanging out,
I was frozen in fear like a rock in the ground.
Pretty much where I was, actually. I was stuck in this desperate fear that I had been given this one dear gift and that I had squandered it. I was afraid that James was the one and only for me and that I would be alone perpetually without him. I couldn't move forward because of the albatross of fear around my neck.

But you move me.
You give me courage I didn't know I had.
Somehow, Walter actually does give me courage I otherwise wouldn't have. I can't believe that I told him the things that I told him last fall - I'm not so sure it was smart, but it was braver than I generally give myself credit for.
You move me.
I can't go with you and stay where I am,
And I would like to go with him... oh yes, I would...
so you move me.

Here's how love seemed to me,
I could look and not see,
Going through the emotions not knowing what they mean.
Well, I still don't know what they mean.
And it scared me so much,
that I just could not budge,
I might have stayed here forever if not for your touch.
Seeing Walter again touched my scarred and whimpering soul enough that I was able to move once more, and now I am free again, uplifted and liberated from my paralysis.

You move me.
Out of myself and into the fire,
Does this strike anyone else as a reference to Garth Brooks "Standing Outside The Fire"? Seems that way to me. And I'd much rather be in the flames. I'm like a moth drawn to emotional fire.
You move me.
Burning with love and hope and desire.
Ok, yes, I know there's no real point, but I am. All three.
You move me.

You go whistling through the dark, making light of it,
making light of it.
I will follow with my heart,
laughing all the way.
I am laughing again. Even at myself. But no longer in the self destructive, mirth-as-shield manner.

Because you move me.
You've got me dancing,
You make me sing.
You move me.
Now I take delight in every little thing,
because you move me.

Yeah, Walter, with whom I have been half in love for the better part of the last year, came to visit and in visiting, freed me of so much baggage. He and I will never be more than the good friends that we are, and that's fine. When I knew he was coming to visit, I saw two plausible ways for the weekend to end. There was a third option also, but not a plausible one. Option one was that I would feel nothing at all aside from deep and abiding friendship for him. I dreaded this because it would have served as confirmation of my worst fears about James. Option two was that I would still have stronger feelings for poor Wally, and that was a much more comfortable option in many ways and at the same time much worse. I wasn't sure what to hope for, honestly. I was scared of one, but didn't want the complication of two. Three would have been nice, but is just so highly unlikely that I didn't consider it really. Two seems to have won the day, and I think I am well pleased with it, though I am sorry to have increased the awkwardness factor with one of my best friends.

Thanks Walter.

 
 

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