Why I’m Choosing Me
You and me
Could become a “we”
Where I give to you
My everything
Hand my identity
Into your hands
And beg my friends
To understand
That you and I
Are special, you see,
And this life requires
All of me
So I drop my interests
Change my plans
Become another
Please understand
I meld together
And disappear
And when you ask me why
I do not hear
And now I am
Too tired for this
To lose all of myself
Inside a kiss
To lose all that I am
At a single touch
It’s too much to ask
It costs too much
I can no longer afford
To disappear
To watch my joy
Turn into fear
I’ll open to love
If love exists
But I won’t seek it
If it means this
And I won’t keep it
If it takes me away
Because lovers go
And I will stay.
