Please don’t convince yourself not to love me anymore
Please don’t wake up in the middle of the night and realize that I don’t fill the emptiness of
your bones, the cracks of your rib cage, the spaces of your hands
Please don’t look at someone else and see everything that I cannot be, the things that I
cannot achieve, the words I cannot speak
Please don’t’ let our flattened conversations phase you, know that even without something to
talk about we are still together
Please don’t tell yourself that my mental state is something you cannot handle, that I cannot
be helped, that I cannot function without a person to depend on
Please don’t turn my name into poison that you will speak to another girl when she asks who
you used to love, who you used to give your life to, who you used to believe in
Please don’t turn around and see that I am weak, that I can barely hold myself up, that I am
not as strong as you
Please don’t believe what others say about me, that I cannot handle this, that I cannot support
you, that I cannot take care of you
Please don’t love someone else
Please don’t make me fall out of love with you