8 Questions I Want To Ask Your Boyfriend 1) Do you know what she’s running from? Why she can never stay; why she carries immeasurable fear like poison that seeps from her beautiful mind into her tired feet? Do you run with her, do you carry her when she is tired? More importantly, do you go and find what she is running from? Even though in order to make her run so fast, you can only presume it is powerful beyond measure, do you go and find it and send it back home? 2) When she wakes up teary, terrified by the things that crawl from the deepest orifices of her own troubled mind in the night - do you hold her? Do you kiss the tears from her face when they fall down, like dying stars crashing to the earth or reluctant raindrops from full rain clouds? 3) When she says that she is not beautiful, or clever, or useful; do you make her feel beautiful, and clever, and useful? Do you touch the darkest parts of her soul that refuse to believe that she is all that she is? Do you plant tiny light bulbs of hope on the inside of her, hoping the circuit, by some miracle, connects and lights her up, offering her the gift of immeasurable clarity? 4) When you see her in pain, does the blood in your veins drain and become replaced with the exact replica of the pain you know she feels? Does it course through you, making you wince as you pull her into your arms and shield her, from everything that is wrong? 5) When she is uneasy, are you her lighthouse? Ushering her gently into harbor, where she can feel safe, homely, and comfortable once again? Do you keep her there, hold her, nurture her, until she feels ready to face the seas again? 6) Do you see the signs? How she gains two creases on the bridge of her nose when she is uncertain or disagreeing; how she looks at the floor and tugs at her sleeves nervously when she is uncomfortable with herself? How when she pushes you away she really means come closer, and how when she tells you what she wants to be, she’s really telling you everything she isn’t? 7) Do you love her? 8) Do you love her like I love her?
