How Do I Know?

how do you know when you love someone.

It's 1/5 of a second, a moment when everything sort of collapses like sheets around you and your insides feel numb because your brain has stopped. It's like a game of self-tug-o-war, you don't want to fall, but the words are burning like a cut on the tip of your tongue. I love you. The feeling is both terrifying and liberating and all the things you always wanted to feel in one package. When you love like that, you can't say it enough. It's like you're constantly trying to convince yourself that it's real or that the other person really feels it too. tell me you love me back. It's wanting to speed up time in slow motion. I want to get to the end with you, but I want to feel every second of it. You know you love someone when you miss them even when you've only been apart for a few hours or a day or two. When you fall asleep wondering if they're in bed laying in the same position you are. Knowing you're in love is feeling giddy every time you see them even when you see them every day and they look just exactly the same as when you left them last. It's being content doing whatever: laying on the floor watching T.V. , walking the beach, eating cucumbers, laying in bed in the afternoon time, working out, it's everything all the time. It's getting mad, but not being able to stay mad because you don't want to hurt their feelings anymore than wanting your own feelings to be hurt
I love you.