I don’t know when I knew that love wasn’t enough

When the warmth of your closeness that

Let me hear your heartbeat mimic the drums

That roar in my ears when I think

About you

Stopped being the motivation I needed

To want you

I don’t know when my affection for you

Turned into a chore, a duty I am guilted into

When you tell me you miss me

I’m sorry

The words automatic, consoling

When I don’t want to, can’t stand to

Be around you

I do love you

More than the moon and the sun and

The stars themselves I love you

With a passion that I never knew I had inside

Of me

But that’s not enough now, and it hasn’t been

Not for a while, not since I met you

Oh if only it were enough

You are too much for me,

Too much love and tenderness and wanting

I need to be, was built to be

On my own

I cannot watch you break your heart as you try

To make me need you

I’m sorry