"I Need To Leave Myself In Love"

I don't want to leave the circle

of your arms, but here I am at the moment

where I must leave nothing of myself for you

to treasure,

and I want to marry the memory of you

to the one I am in my dreams so I finally

can be the one you deserve to love.

I don't want to leave the clutch of

your body in the warmth of happiness,

and I want there to be days and days

and years of us together

where I don't have to leave

and the times where you haven't already left me

because I didn't love you soon enough.