Like Others Do

Tonight, I am lonely again

  But tomorrow I’ll be strong

Tonight, I needed you

   And you weren’t here

     And I was only wishing that you were

But tomorrow 

    I won’t need anyone 

Tomorrow 

I’ll be strong enough to stand it 

Yes my dear, I wish you were here

You see

I was angry today

Irritated with this maze of a world 

And I just thought

That if I did get too hot

You’d be the one

Who could cool me off  

But I am reminded by your absence

That you won’t always be here for me

And I need to survive on my own 

I need to learn how live alone 

I need to learn to let things go 

But the real problem with us is

I know 

   That you only love me

Because I don’t need you . . . 

but some days . . . 

I do

And that is why

You and I 

    Don’t fit together 

Like others do

And this is why

  I cannot try

     With anyone else other than you 

CH 4/19/24