I'm here

I'm here to take your hand and bring you along.

I'm here. 

I'm here to guide your next step. 

I'm here.

I'm here to stand in for the one who should be.

I'm here,

To be to be someone other than who I should be. 

I'm here, 

To fill in gaps badly. 

Don't know

I don't know your face. 

I don't know your face, except as an object of affections. 

I don't know your life. 

I don't know your life, except as unrealized desires. 

I don't know your story. 

I don't know your story, except as the lessons I refuse to learn. 

I don't know you. 

I never will. 

And yet, I still fumble the story of who you are.