Because I Love You
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"I don't want you to linger around" he says.
"Right after the bell, come to the bus."
Confused I ask him why I shouldn't.
"Because I love you, without me,
you can't have fun"
"Because I love you" he states to me,
"You cannot sit with your friends."
I start to protest, but then he shouts,
"So you don't love me then?"
I accept his request with tears in my eyes.
Before I had someone else,
Now I am all alone with the one I love,
in exchange for that, I get no one else.
"I saw you in the library with that guy."
"I'm telling you, I was tutoring him."
"Well, now you'll stop going to the library,
as well as tutoring kids."
"I need my hours, though!" I protest to him,
in pain from his fierce grasp.
"But don't you love me, Emily?" he states.
"I know you'll love me back."
Love. A 4 letter word.
Everyone knows what it is.
But what happens when love becomes outta control.
Maybe, becomes a weapon.
"Because I love you I am doing this,"
He says to me through my sobs.
He lights my house up into flames.
As my bruised body wails for justice.