Do You Realize Poem by Dallas Carter

You mean something to me that I don't know how to describe.
I can try to explain it, but I don't know if it is even possible to find justifiable words for it.
Everything that has been building between us for almost a year
Everything I've been hiding inside for all this time
Has finally reached its peak, and is boiling over the rim of the kettle.
I could ask myself questions on what it means, but instead I'll inquire of you.

Do you realize how much I really care?
Do you realize the kind of effect you have on me?
Do you realize how much I really need you?
Do you realize that I truly do believe in you more than anything else?
Do you realize that I cannot imagine life without you?
I don't think you realize who you are in my eyes.

You have been there for me at times that other people haven't.
When I get low you call me and talk until you can't talk any more.
I wish I could have you here with me, wish you could just hold me in your arms,
And whisper in my ear until I fall asleep.
You may not be my first love, but you were the first person to understand me,
The first person who could actually comprehend what goes on in my mind.

And yet, every time I get close to you, close enough to see how you care,
You start to shut down, to lock me out.
You fight any chance of having feelings for me, but you know what it does to me.
He never showed the kind of respect for me that you do.
After the state I was in when he left you picked me up, brushed me off,
Treated me like a person, and that was something no one has ever done for me.

You want to know what I see in you?
I see a man who had the heart to see someone who was broken like him
And try to make her whole again.
I'll never heal the way I want to, and I had to come a long way to realize that.
But even after everything I've been through, and the little bit that I've shared with you
You still stick around to see what happens.

When all this is over I know I'll look over at you with a soft smile on my face
And you'll look over at me still not knowing why you are all that you are to me.
I can guarantee you this one thing out of every thing that I have ever promised you,
You are worth more than just a flag on your coffin, you are worth so much more.
Do you realize what you've done for me?
Do you realize all that you are to me, how much I love you?

I don't think you realize who you are in my eyes