BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

Because I love you…

 

You don’t love yourself.

I’ve never learned the proper ways to love myself

And because of that

I dot it to you.

 

The  first people in my life who made me out of “love”

Told me the same things.

 

Because I love you…

I will hit you more times I’ve hugged you

Told you I loved you.

Told you I'm proud.

Or

That I’m happy I got you.

 

I will vanish from your life

Making you think everything's your fault

When it's mine.

My parents never taught me love

Why should I give it to you

When you can give me your body instead

And I’ll replace

Love with lust.

 

To point you think you're in love with me.

 

But because I love you,

You're in love with a monster

A monster so weak

They yell at you

Degrade you

Abuse you.

 

But because you love me

To point of being brainwashed

You will never leave

Like I never left

My abusers.

And because I don’t love myself

You will never know

That I AM  the weak one.

 

I know you don’t love me

 

Because you don’t love yourself.

I never noticed in the beginning

But it's over.

 

You don’t need to lie and me you love me.

How could you love me

When you never

Cherished me

Accepted me

Accepted yourself

 

Thought you were what I needed to live

I had the constant feeling

Of insecurity

Self-hatred

And loneliness

 

Nothing is far more damaging than being with someone

But still feeling alone.

Because of you I felt cold

I felt that the only way I could love someone is damage them.

Like you damaged me.

 

I stepped back. I listen to the redflags

You wouldn’t communicate

You gave me the cold shoulder

That I took for so long.

 

Until one day I woke up.

I figure out that this situation I was in

Wasn’t my fault.

 

I realized my self-worth.

I realized I am beautiful.

Strong

And no one not

Even

You

Can take that away from me.

 

And I realized…

 

Because I don’t love you anymore

I love myself instead.

And that just like everyone else deserves to be cherished

So do I.

I deserve someone

Who will love me mentally and physically.

I realized

Love is a relationship

It's never one-sided.

Nor you or anyone else will tell me what I deserve anymore.

 

I know what I deserve and it is far more than being simply loved.

I need to be

Motivated

To be the best I can be

Happy

To cherish the good times and understand why the bad times happen.

 

To me that is the healthy relationship,

And if anyone tries to take that away.

Their going to have to fight fot it.

 

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