I wish you could love me

I don’t want to lose you

don't want to leave you

don’t want to keep leading you on

but I spilled the ashes

I lost the key

I broke it off

burned the “and” from between “you and me”

I told you no when our futures didn’t align

said it again when you told me that you'd change your mind

I can’t pretend that we could have been fine

I’d carry guilt of knowing you changed for me

and maybe you’d have me, but you‘d be unhappy

so we walk this line

we call ourselves friends

we never address it because we know how it ends

but lost in the background

I think we both scream

I wish you could love me