Falling Out of Love

Here I am
A tune fork in this relationship
You know how to play me, manipulate me,
Love me passionately until you've got something better to do.

You're always there.
Slithering around in my head.
Knowing I won’t ever leave
Because you’ll always have the words
To string me along, and pull me back into your arms.

Even when my mind is explosive,
And I want to ruin you--destroy you!
The thought of living without you,
Living without someone who knows me for my flaws,
Scares the thought away,
Makes it shrivel
Until it’s just a tiny speck in the back of my mind.

One day though
I’ll have to figure out why I love you
How I can always find the pieces of my heart,
Which you keep ripping to shreds,
And put them together again so I can give them back to you.
“Here’s my heart,
Please be careful with it.
I’ve been hurt before.”
By you.