Was it stupid to think I would end up with you?
Or maybe selfish?
But you never knew

I should have told you and now I’m second guessing
But it would be too cruel, and I can’t keep messing

With your head and your heart
I won’t curse you from the start

I couldn’t admit it to myself
I just wanted to hide you away on my shelf

For safe keeping
You’d always be there
This wouldn’t be dreaming

And I clung to the potential you had
To make me feel some sort of mad

Love it isn’t wise, in fact it’s torture in disguise
I don’t want you
I don’t want you
I don’t want you

To bring me some vague feeling of affection
Your affirming makes it difficult for rejection

But it’s not love I feel
And how dare I steal?

I built it up in my head
These thoughts of you and me will never be what’s best

In unison
What we could be

I don’t want it
I don’t want it
I don’t want you

And now, life has become more gray

Rainey McBride is an English and Communications major from Dallas, TX, who is passionate about songwriting and finding the best bubble tea places in every new city she travels to.
Categories: Poetry