sometimes i look at you and can't understand how someone before me didn't see what i see 

sometimes i look at you and i can't understand how someone before me didn't notice a whole beautiful universe hidden within you 

sometimes i look at you and i can't understand how someone looked at you and didn't find every single thing they'd been searching for in a single human being 

and sometimes i look at you feeling glad that they didn't, because if they looked deep enough to see all of those things within you, then i would've never been able to 

- ruby dhal