by J.A. Jennings

Created on: August 18, 2009   Last Updated: July 05, 2010

I don't want to...

Live the tragic love story, the love that can never be.

I don't want to fall madly in love with you all over again only to find it's too late.

I don't want to remember your touch on my skin, again and again.

I don't want to kiss like our lips were meant only for one another.

I don't want to...

feel the sand between my toes and imagine you there beside me,

I don't want to see the ghost of you in every doorway and on my pillow,

I don't want to hide this love ever more without a day in the sun,

I don't want the love we made to cloud my eyes until the day I die,

I don't want to...

Walk an empty earth in the lonely shadow of what could have been,

I don't want to carry this heavy weight of us each day,

I don't want my tears to burn these eyes as I fall asleep and as I wake,

I don't want to think of you looking into her eyes and holding her hand,

I don't want to...

Connect with another soul, experience another love, or welcome another embrace,

I don't want to hear you say our love will never work in our realities,

I don't want to be with someone who cannot make the possibilities come true,

I don't want to live on someone else's shelf as life passes by,

And yet, I don't want to...

Let go

Give you up

Walk away

Forget about us

This is not what I would choose.

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