Please understand, I do not chase you
Because I want to create a future with you...
Your somber eyes reflect my own grief, so apart of my persona it has become engraved and recognizable in someone else.

I don't want to change you
I only want to fall asleep safely next to someone who is as desperate to feel anything but loss

Just as I do...

if ever the time arrives
where you find yourself
          simultaneously  
defining yet begging for empathy;

Stop

one day you will smile at the irony for it is always the heartless who will hear your eloquent ballad as nothing but radio static.