Poem For You

I want to pretend not to love you

But God knows I do

And when I say I understand

You’ve got to know I do

And although I love you

It’s hard for me to watch you

Do the things you do

By hurting yourself

You’re hurting me

And I’m just getting over

And struggling with this awful thing

I cannot stand to watch you do this

It makes me want to cry

As I watch you hurt yourself

I badly want to do it too

And I want to say I love you

Because I can’t deny it

And if you love me too

God knows you do

You’ll stop

For me

If not for you