Because Love (?)

Is your seatbelt buckled in?

Did you eat enough?

Did you find the time to sleep?

Can you promise you won’t give up?

The people leaving purple bruises

Try to chain your mind.

They aren’t the people worthy of

Your love, your life, your time.

Relationships exist in moments

Fragmented and brittle.

A healthy match is one that

Makes you feel alive, not little.

Love is freely given out,

Not judged for or demanded.

Free will is yours and yours alone,

Not to be taken or commanded

By the one you thought you loved, or do?

Don’t ask the question, “why?”

If you do, you’ll hear a shout

And maybe realize

That the love you built your life around

Is too weak to hold a home

And the person you once thought was perfect

Leaves you feeling alone.

Real love is shown in phrases like,

“I hope you got home safe.”

The friends who hold you tight

To comfort, cherish, save, not break.

Because cracks appear when demons yell

And throw glass on the wall.

That love you once pretended

Is forcing you to crawl

Away because you simply cannot

Stand in the face of truth

Without admitting that that love you thought

Was a phantom dream of youth.

Naive plaguing discontent

Tell me, tell me what it meant?

What should you hear to prove the love you have is strong within?

Is it “Don’t you dare be yourself” or “Is your seatbelt buckled in?”?