Baby
Your fears are valid
I acknowledge them
But they hurt me still
I know he hurt your mom
So now you
Take it all out on me
That because he left
You think me already gone
But I hope that one day
I can get through to you
That
You are not your mother
And
I am not your father.

Around you,
I guard my breath,
with chains and locks,
I keep losing them;
you keep stealing them.

We are like two stones
That came together
And made a fire
Burning everything
But ourselves.

As I lay here in bed
Reminiscing about the past few days
I think of the way your voice
Cracked last night and
How it broke me to bits
As if I wasn't already shattered and in pain
Because every time you hurt
I feel it all, along with my own pain
Can we never fight?

My days are not the same when
You aren't happy; and I usually stay
Away, not because I'm enjoying it
But cos I don't want to acknowledge the fact
That again, I've made you cry
And it kills me even more because
I am not there with you, physically
To dry your eyes and kiss each drop of tear
To hug you and hold you
And kiss you with the kind
Of force and fervor
That says all of these things at once
That I love you more than life itself
That I miss you more than words can say
And I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you.

How can we expect love
To be perfect
When we made it?

You get me
But maybe that also means
You know just where
It hurts the most
And so you keep stabbing at it

I feel so much for you,
Yet never enough,
How much more
do I need to love you
for my heart
and yours
to be filled; fulfilled.