Do you know why I tell you I love you everyday?

Because people forget.

Write a memo forget where you put it

Even when its embedded in your skin

Coursing through you

Data feeds and electricity.

 

Sometimes I forget

You’re not a machine.

All the locks but no keys.

Phones that don’t ring.

And should I leave

I’ll just leave a message after the beep

So long as the line stays on.

 

I can’t let you lose

Because I’d be losing too.

Love’s not a race or competition

See you at the finish line

Eat my dust, coughing up blood

Suffocating, drowning in the fear.

Love’s not a race so

Why does the red hare get there faster?

 

Perhaps if love was a sport

It’d be a two-legged race,

But baby are we on the same team?

 

Sometimes I forget you smile with broken lips.

It hurts to be happy when it’s just a theory,

Equations on chalkboards, symbols and chemicals

That even you couldn’t decipher.

 

Sometimes I forget,

Sometimes I need to be reminded

You’re strong but not invincible.