I’m just saying this

Because I love you

I’m just trying to protect you

I don’t think, no

No, no not at all

It’s not very logical

To have such dreams

No, dear, you can’t do that

No, darling, that’s not for you

Put down your paint brushes

Cast away your beloved pen

Turn your back upon the blank page

All the books that saved you

Are just

A collection

Of Words

Words, words, words

You cannot have the words that pour from your soul

You cannot have the words that have taught you how to live

No, no, no

Darling, sweetheart, sunshine, pumpkin, honey

No, no, no

You can’t talk like that

You can’t say that

You don’t belong here or there

You are what I say you are

You belong to quiet words

That slip from your mouth

And go unheard

Unrecorded

Unremembered

Because I love you

I will create you

Your life

Will be

Laid out

Everything

Will

Fall

Exactly as according to plan and adhering to logic

Submitting to reason and becoming a slave to practicality

Because I love you

I will destroy

Who you think you are

Because you are nothing, without me,

Because I love you.

 

No.

No.

No.

I will not let your love

Destroy me

I am not made of honey and sweet things.

I am not, I am not, I am not

I am not a beam of light to be hidden by the blinds and curtains of your rules.

I am not

I am not yours.

I am solely mine.

You may love me

And I may love you

But that doesn’t mean you know me.

That doesn’t mean you understand me.

Because I know me

Because I understand me

Because I love me

I will chase these dreams

That you snatched from me

Butterflies in the gardens I was barred from

I will be unrealistic and impractical and full of hope

I will pour my soul into the world

I will create myself over and over and over again

Reforming with every footfall on the green grasses of possibility

Because I love me.