Imagine loving someone enough to give them up
Because they deserve better
You don't say that to get away
You say that so they can get away

They were like a sunset
The type with thousands of shades of orange
Clouds lingering right above acting as licking flames
The type if you witnessed with company you'd want them to see too
So you'd pester and pester even if they were busy
Going as far to yank them out into the yard if they kept refusing
As soon as they finally saw both of you would develop an overwhelming desire to run around the neighborhood and draw everyone out of their homes so they too could see
They were gorgeous and everyone could see that
There is a sort of pride in that of course
Being able to look at such a thing and say
"It's for me."
That though was the part of them I detested as much as I loved

For I am a selfish lover
I'd rather love a galaxy billions of light years away
Galaxies no one has seen and immediately would refuse to believe in if I offered my statement of it
Galaxy in which only belong to my eyes
I would rather love something only I see and believe in

It was never that I was possessive
No, if they longed to leave I would not have protested
It was the idea of them one day leaving that terrified me
For if everyone else could see their beauty there was no stopping them from loving you the way I did
Nothing stopping them from maybe loving you better and more
It was the thought of someone being able to love you better and more that made me feel unneeded
The idea that you needed something I could not offer
Sure you wanted me, but you didn't need me

You were the sun
I was a star
You had the moon as your admirer
I know how that story ends
The love of the sun and the moon is something in which is beyond love itself
How am I, a star, meant to compete with such a thing
For there are billions like me
For there is only one moon

One day you will see that as clearly as I do
How I broke my heart into millions of pieces
So you heart would one day have the love it so rightfully deserved