GIVE UP

I don't want to give up on you

don't want to ignore our weeks,

months of mutual appreciation

devotion, affection.

Don't want to deny how you made me feel

how I tried to make you feel

what I said

your words so clearly misread.

I don't wan to forget it

forgo these thoughts

I don't want to lose us.

I don't want to give up on you

as I have with so many others

as he surely did

so long ago.

I don't want this to end.

I don't want to give up on you.

But the heart does what the mind wants.

I'm sorry.

I give up.