Don't give me promises

Don't give me promises you

can't keep.

Don't place forever in my hands

only to let it fall.

Don't take my heart away

when I've only just learned to open it again.

I feel myself falling into you,

not with fear-

but with a fragile hope.

and yet,

I don't deal in promises,

only in the truth of the moment.

Every song you write

breathes of love,

while my words stumble

trying to catch their breath.

I paint with feelings,

as if colors are fading

the moment they touch the page-

still,

they draw your face.

Don't give me love

that disappears with silence.

Don't heal my wounds

just to open them again.

let it stay.

If not,

let me go.

Because even in the breaking,

I choose love-

raw,

imperfect,

but mine.