Love Me Or Leave Me

You don't want to know

What's underneath

What's hidden

In my skin

You would never dream

Of such ugly

Resting in between

Where I can't reach

And fix

The things

That need fixing

That even I can't undo

All that I want to

 

You can have me

For all the nights you want

You can hold me

When I cry

You can shake me

When I'm acting crazy

You can rob me

When I'm wrong

Take it all away

Make me work for it

You can take away all my senses

Until I have nothing

But you

To lean on

You can have me

For as many nights as you want

But you will never have all of me

 

Take me

For all I am

And all I'm never going to be

Or leave me behind

Take the good times

And times

And walk away

While you have your heart

Still intact

I won't always be there

And I won't react

The way you think I should

And if I could

You know me well enough 

To know I would

But there will always be

Things between you and me

That I can't explain

And there will always be pain

That I can't heal

But the love I've held for you

Is more real

Than any thing you've ever felt before

 

So either stand alone

And be 

All you can be

Or love me

And face the possibilty

Of sinking 

You will always have a choice

I would never take away your voice

I would never

Stand in your way

But I will never have all the answers

And I won't always say

What you need to hear

There's pain

And there's fear

Locked inside me

Sinking me deep

And as much as I love you

There will always be places even you can't reach

Inside me

So either love me

In all my broken pieces

Or leave me

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