Category Archives: Heartbreak

Brokenness, Heartbreak, Loss, Love, Poetry

I Want You to Stay

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I want you to stay
But you have no reason to
Why would you stay?
If I’m no good for you

I’ve taken all of you, and I’ve used you up
But I haven’t given you nearly enough
I haven’t given you all of my time
I haven’t put in enough of my effort

I want you to stay
But why would you want to?
I want you to stay
But I can’t force you to

You’ve put up with my shit
Given me every chance
Told me what needs to change if we are to last
I said things would be different, but I didn’t try

I want you to stay
We were supposed to be forever and ever, you and I
But the story has ended, it’s time to move on
Unfortunately for us we are a thing of the past

Brokenness, Heartbreak, isolation, Loss, Poetry

On My Own Again

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This was always going to be the outcome, wasn’t it?
I don’t know how to love
I don’t know how to give
I don’t know how to be good to someone else
I can’t even be good to myself

On my own again
Nowhere to be and nowhere to go
I’ve never been a friendly person
I’ve never been all that nice
I tried to give you a part of me
And you always gave me all of you
It was never going to be enough

I don’t know what it means to sacrifice
I don’t know how to show love
I don’t know how to be a human being
I don’t know how to be a friend, son, lover
It’s all so fucked up

I know that I need to do better
I want to believe that I can
But you gave me so many chances
And I’ve used them all up

I said time and time again
That I would do better
That I would try harder
I know I fucked up
I let the fire go out
I let the relationship die

You put the blame on me
And how can I deny that?
I needed to be better
I needed to show growth
Show you that things could change

But zilch, nada, nope
Still the same old me
Unable to love, unable to provide
You deserve someone better
Someone that doesn’t lie
Doesn’t lie to you, doesn’t lie to himself
Doesn’t lie to the world

So I’m on my own again
Wanting to be better than who I’ve always been
But unable to do so
I should let you go
Because I deserve to be alone