How can I love you?
When love wasn’t exactly
What I grew up on
It was more like words
Of trauma, fear, anxiety
These are the things
That got passed along
How can I love you?
When all I’ve ever known
Was pain
My father
Countless men
Come and gone
Come back
And gone again
How can I love you?
When I don’t know myself
I get lost in someone else
Trying to please them
And make sure I keep them
Around to better
My esteem of self
How can I love you?
When love has failed me over
And over again
Trying to find that balance
Between lover and friend
I constantly can’t stop thinking
About the end
How can I love you?
How?
I suppose I try my best
Just like you
Maybe if we continue to try
Love might come easy
Between us two!
