Me and You

I like you

But I like me more

I’ll love you

But I’ll love me more

I want to adore you

But I need you to see me

I don’t know you

But I can’t help but wonder and see

I want to know if you are real

But everything in me says you’re not

The doubt is killing me slowly

But not slow enough. It’s torture

I need to be free of this obsession

But I tremble at the thought of our end

I Quit You

I quit you like I quit cigarettes. Each day that I awake, I remind myself that I don’t need you. With every breath that I take, I remember that you are not the air that I breathe.  You will not be the cancer in my heart.  My growth will not be stunted by someone who’s stagnant. The flame that we burned together has been rubbed out of existence on the sole of my boot. There’s only ash.