Your Version of Love

How am I supposed to love you when you don’t know what love means?

Is love supposed to be filled with lust and desire, or care and compassion?

All I have ever known from you is your version of love

But what about how I view love?

Is wanting to not be dependent on you a bad thing?

You always seem to dictate my mood for the day

Manipulating how I feel comes natural to you doesn’t it?

When does it become okay to use me and disregard what I am and what I value?

I want to feel cherished, that I matter in this world

I want to feel like I have a purpose

I want to be happy for once

I can say I want to feel what true love is

But all I have ever known is your version of love