You don’t understand why he hates you You don’t understand why he doesn’t want you You don’t understand why one day he can humor your persistence And another day he can’t stand your presence But you know you love him And from the moment you entered this whirlwind of life, He was there You knew you were dumb and confused You knew on some level, everybody was But you knew he was a little less dumb and confused than you were And as a new blossom it is much easier to relate To a ripening sapling than to a forest of tall oaks He was your sapling But rather than provide you shade he deterred your sunlight You were an orchid growing on his branches And despite the fact that you belonged there, alongside him He ached to rip your petals off of his bark You don’t understand why