Can you ever really love
If you do not love yourself?
Will a relationship ever work
If you lack faith
Even before stepping in?
Can someone’s faith in me
Make up for all I lack?
Does the doubt I harbor
Cause you pain as I imagine?
Won’t every person tire
Of proving their love over and over
Only to never satisfy
My insecurities?
Won’t I wear out every love
By not accepting I may be worthy?
Why will nothing quiet
The voice of fear in my heart,
Begging and pleading not to be broken
One last time,
At least one time?
If I accepted that you loved me
And didn’t doubt or fear,
If I didn’t worry and fret,
If I lost all insecurities
And gained true faith in us
Would I get bored and leave?
Will I ever change
Or will you change
Just like the others
Breaking under the unbearable
Demands of loving someone like me,
Someone who refuses to love themselves?
Age 20
If you do not love yourself?
Will a relationship ever work
If you lack faith
Even before stepping in?
Can someone’s faith in me
Make up for all I lack?
Does the doubt I harbor
Cause you pain as I imagine?
Won’t every person tire
Of proving their love over and over
Only to never satisfy
My insecurities?
Won’t I wear out every love
By not accepting I may be worthy?
Why will nothing quiet
The voice of fear in my heart,
Begging and pleading not to be broken
One last time,
At least one time?
If I accepted that you loved me
And didn’t doubt or fear,
If I didn’t worry and fret,
If I lost all insecurities
And gained true faith in us
Would I get bored and leave?
Will I ever change
Or will you change
Just like the others
Breaking under the unbearable
Demands of loving someone like me,
Someone who refuses to love themselves?
Age 20