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