Once
You were the only thing
Holding my world together.
Truly the only one left,
The only one who had ever stayed.

Staying
I used to think
Was the hardest thing to get people to do.
But now I think that maybe staying is just like love....

Not enough.

I do not know which words to say
Because you say you love me
But how can that be?
I can't believe it,
Not with the way you treat me.  

How do I stay?
How do I leave?
I am suspended
Between my love for
Myself
And my love for
You.

I say I love you
But with each jab,
Every harsh word,
It is dimming...