I write poems about you About love and hate and in between As you criticize the dream For being too bold Too brash and vibrant to hold But it’s all me Sailing on the empty sea Of my own dread Is it wrong that you’re in my head Incessantly What does it take to be free Of your grasp You said we’d ever last But fine As you give up the thousandth time On what we were And I amn’t her But am I just making drama Not seeing things like a panorama Gaslighting myself Then saying it’s better for my mental health To hold it all in But maybe the sin Is not giving myself leave to feel And it’s all real So I heal Slowly at first You don’t have to rehearse I paint it in verse And a sideways glance Is nothing but a second chance Gone to waste So make haste And dive in It’s only five minutes til we begin To see the storm another dial And it’s like we’re on trial For a crime we didn’t commit But it’s still you I’m walking with