a fragment from a silly poem i wrote for namjoon this time last year.
happy birthday babe ๐๐
(full poem under the cut)
you once said
"use BTS to love yourself"
and loving myself has been
the hardest thing i've
ever done
(i still don't do it quite right,
sometimes)
but your words
and your voice, and your eyes
when you say them
have been the hand that
pulls me up, & pulls me along
lately.
"do i miss myself?
[โฆ]i don't know, i don't know"
when it's 3:00 am
and i feel tiny
but i need to know that
it doesn't matter
because everyone is,
so none of us are
i listen to mono
(and also D-2 but this isn't
about yoongi)
and i take a deep breath
and i'm grateful to you
for giving me a home
whenever i need it.
"every time i look at it, i think
wow, you work so hard.
i should do the same"
you said, another time
about your little plum tree
you love so much
and i think about this
all the time
i'm happy that i get to see
how the world looks
through your eyes
even just in glimpses
for i find
that it's lovely
(& i should work harder,
& i should work harder)
"i am not a very good dancer,
but i love to dance!"
you said, in an interview
and i've been realizing that i, too
love to dance!
& i don't dance nearly enough
but you've made me stand up
(and taehyung, and all of you)
more often than i did
for a year and a half, now
and it feels great, to do it.
"uhm, chris โฆ"
you interrupted
in that same interview
and i love that you did
i love that you couldn't keep
your love quiet
if it meant another person
wouldn't know they're
extraordinary.
"i live, so i love"
you sang
(in a concert i wish i could
turn back time to see)
even when i remember you saying
that you didn't believe
humanity is inherently good
but that's it, isn't it?
it doesn't matter
if the world is good, or not,
it doesn't make me love it
any less.
every time i'm overwhelmed
by the beauty around me
i realize that, yeah,
i live, so obviously,
certainly, and plainly,
i love.
how could i not?
"i don't have a driver's license"
you like to remind everyone,
proudly, with a little bit of
a broken english
but that never stopped you, did it?
you couldn't let that stop you
i find it admirable
i hope i can be as good
as to one day speak
with a little bit of
a broken korean
and be able to tell you
all this
(actually, i hope i can be
as fluid as the han river)
"even if i end up becoming
someone other that myself, it's okay,
only i am my own salvation"
i always cry with this song
(i cried writing this down)
it amazes me how you always
know what to say
or maybe how to say it
(or maybe a combination of the two)
you make me believe it
(๊ด์ฐฎ์, ๊ด์ฐฎ์)
(it's ok)
"not bad and not good
at the same time.
just a life"
i had to add this
because that's how i feel
constantly
at such a turning point
in my life
and it's comforting to know
that RM of BTS
is really just namjoon, too
and it's namjoon's,
"just namjoon" 's art
(and the boys, you must be
so proud)
that is a solace, to me
and to many.
"can a sound wave file
change the world?"
well, i don't know
about the world
but you did change
mine
(and, if i may,
i think your sound waves
are
changing the world).
love,
ns.
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